Re: Display diffs between generations.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>   --list-generations=full
>>>
>>> I think keeping a way to see all generations in one go would be cool
>>
>> --list-generations would still display all the generations.  Or did you
>> mean “a way to see *the content* of each generation”?
>
> I'm not sure to understand what you mean by "the content", what I meant
> was to keep what current guix package -l shows us, i.e. do not alter current
> UI, only add new things, but do not break existing practices when not 
> mandated.

I agree with this as a general principle, of course.  However, my
experience is that currently -l is hardly usable in practice, because it
spits out way too many lines.

For example, I have 200+ packages in my user profile, so it prints out
several times 200 lines, which is useless for me.  Conversely, the diff
format that Roel proposes would be more immediately readable.

Does that make sense?

Ludo’.