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From: Bone Baboon via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 47911@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47911: Package outputs should be described in the UI
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:42:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z0grbdy.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YH8Rl4J57UHo87Kg@jasmine.lan>

Leo Famulari writes:

> At least once a month I have to help somebody on IRC who didn't notice
> that our Git package is split into multiple outputs.
>
> They can't find `git send-email`, and the Guix package UI doesn't make
> this clear enough.
>
> I had the idea that package outputs besides 'out' and 'debug' should
> have very brief descriptions that are exposed in `guix show` and `guix
> search` and the `guix package` equivalents.

I ran into this issue when I started using Guix.

I like this idea.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 17:38 bug#47911: Package outputs should be described in the UI Leo Famulari
2021-04-20 17:43 ` bug#47911: Improving the package outputs UI Leo Famulari
2021-04-20 22:05   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-21  0:52     ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-20 19:42 ` Bone Baboon via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2021-04-20 21:54 ` bug#47911: Package outputs should be described in the UI Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-21  0:59   ` Leo Famulari

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