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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@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 23:54:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7k08vvu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YH8Rl4J57UHo87Kg@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:38:31 -0400")

Hi,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> 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.

Just a side note: our ‘git’ package uses outputs in a rather unusual
way.  There are other packages that provide different features in
different outputs, but the majority of multiple-output packages have the
“standard” outputs: “doc”, “bin”, “lib”, “debug”.

So maybe we could look at the ‘git’ package (can it be split into
several packages? would that help?) in addition to the UI, and also make
sure the UI is optimized for the most frequent cases.

Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 21:55 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 ` bug#47911: Package outputs should be described in the UI Bone Baboon via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-20 21:54 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-04-21  0:59   ` Leo Famulari

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