[debbugs-tracker] bug#19978: closed (It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations)

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> It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations
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> Sun, 01 Mar 2015 22:41:20 +0100
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> The other day I ran "guix package -d 1d" thinking it will preserve the
> current generation, but it didn't.  If I'm not mistaken, there's no
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> Any command that will delete even the current generation should probably
> interactively warn/prompt the user by default, or fail, unless given a
> --force flag.  Documentation should also warn I guess.
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> Taylan
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> address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:
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> > The other day I ran "guix package -d 1d" thinking it will preserve the
> > current generation, but it didn't.  If I'm not mistaken, there's no
> > recovery from that either.
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> > Any command that will delete even the current generation should probably
> > interactively warn/prompt the user by default, or fail, unless given a
> > --force flag.  Documentation should also warn I guess.
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> I believe d26eb84 fixes that.
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> There’s no --force flag, but I think it’s unnecessary: it’s always
> possible to rollback to generation 0 and from there remove whatever.
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