Re: delete-generations or --delete-generations?

[Jack Hill]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Raghav Gururajan wrote:

> Hello Guix!
>
> Why there is no '--' prefix to 'delete-generations' for `guix system`, when 
> there is for `guix pull` and `guix package`?

Raghav,

I don't know (but I'll speculate in a bit), but it's not just 
delete-generations. All of the guix system subcommands (e.g. init, 
reconfigure, list-generations) are like that. I suspect this is due to the 
organization of all these system-related subcommands under one top level 
command. These subcommands are different than options like --no-substittue 
and --keep-failed.

I do see what you mean by it being organized a little bit differently than 
the other guix commands though. I guess it would be closer if there were a 
guix system generations subcommand with --delete --list etc. options. I 
have no opinion if this would make sense the implement though.

Hope that helps,
Jack