Re: No upgrade after pull, and Guix philosophy (was: readline problem)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Wiktor Żelazny <wz@freeshell.de> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Wiktor Żelazny <wz@freeshell.de> writes:
>>
>> > This sounds rather brittle: you need to keep things in your head.
>>
>> I don’t follow.  I don’t see what you’re referring to as “brittle” and
>> what you need to keep in your head.
>
> When upgrading your packages you need to remember every time which ones
> you want to keep at their current versions (in the broad sense) and, to
> my understanding, juggle with regexpes, so that they’re excluded from an
> upgrade. What if you upgrade them by accident? How do you roll-back and
> how do you know to which corresponding Guix commit you should roll-back
> to?
>
> A manifest would let you be more organized. You can put comments there,
> you can manage it with version control.

Sure, that’s why they exist.  But it’s fine to offer both interfaces.

The imperative interface exists because it is common and does not
require much learning at all.  When the convenience it provides is
outmatched by the downsides of imperative package management users can
migrate to manifests.

-- 
Ricardo