On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:28:50AM +0200, zimoun wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 21:52, Tom via Bug reports for GNU Guix
> <bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > To add detail here:
> >
> > Doing `guix package -d 18 -S 17` actually works.
> >
> > This gives me the impression that the order of arguments is relevant to the
> > processing of them.
> 
> It is known and cumbersome: a feature? ;-)
> 
> Other examples:
> 
>   guix package -I -A # does nothing
>   guix package -A -I # list available
> 
> 
> > Another, similar, example is:
> >
> >    guix package -l --profile=a
> >
> > this doesn't work. But the most curious thing is that this does:
> >
> >    guix package --list-installed --profile=a
> 
> It is worse than that.
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> # OK
>  guix package --list-generations -p /path/to/profile
>  guix package --list-installed -p /path/to/profile
> 
> # KO
>  guix package -l -p /path/to/profile
>  guix package -I -p /path/to/profile
> 
> # OK
>  guix package -p /path/to/profile -l
>  guix package -p /path/to/profile -I
> 
> # KO
>  guix package -l --profile=/path/to/profile
> 
> # Do nothing
>  guix package -I --profile=/path/to/profile
> 
> # OK
>  guix package -l --profile=/path/to/profile -l
>  guix package -I --profile=/path/to/profile -I
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> 
> Well, it seems there is a bug. :-)
> 
> Back to the first examples:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> # Do something
>  guix package --list-installed -A
> 
> # Do nothing
>  guix package -I -A
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> 
> Thanks for reporting.
> 
> All the best,
> simon
> 

To add to this:

$ guix package -p profile1 -p profile2 -I | wc -l
91
$ guix package -p profile2 -p profile1 -I | wc -l
12

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