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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> I speculate too. :-) I guess because the idea behind “guix system” is
> one action at a time however “guix package” can compose actions in one
> transaction (guix package --install=foo --remove=bar).  Using the
> default CLI parser (SRFI-37), it seems easier for composing to use the
> options (--<name-it>) than to extract actions.  For instance, if it was
> “guix package <action>” as it is with “guix system”, then it is harder
> to parse the composition, i.e.,

Yeah, long ago Alex Kost and others proposed turning some of the current
‘guix package’ options into sub-sub-commands of a new ‘guix profile’
sub-command: ‘guix profile install foo’, ‘guix profile
delete-generations’, etc.

It may be consistent but maybe a bit far-fetched and annoying to type…

Ludo’.