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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Roel Janssen <roel@moefel.org>
Cc: 16187@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16187: Tabbed output of "guix package -l"
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:17:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y53goj4f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d4b0f02692209dbc25f2d759949d5b8@moefel.org> (Roel Janssen's message of "Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:03:56 +0100")

Hi,

Thanks for the report.

Roel Janssen <roel@moefel.org> skribis:

> I'd like the output of a command like "guix package -l" to be tabbed
> preserving all columns.
>
> An example output of the current version:
> Generation 68	dec 18 2013 12:46:45	(current)
>   make  4.0     out     /nix/store/...
>   automake      1.14	out     /nix/store/...
>   ...
>
> What I would like to see:
>   make          4.0     out     /nix/store/...
>   automake      1.14    out     /nix/store/...
>   ...
>
> The same applies for the output of "guix package -I" and "guix package
> -A"

As discussed on IRC, the rationale (for -I and -A) was to have something
both human-readable and processable–that is, one can pipe it through
‘cut’ and extract the data.  I think that’s an important property, for a
Unix command-line tool.

Now, ideally, ‘guix package’ would be just one of the user interfaces,
with others being more user-oriented than command-oriented (see TODO)...

What do you think?

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-19 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-18 18:03 bug#16187: Tabbed output of "guix package -l" Roel Janssen
2013-12-19 17:17 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-12-23 20:13   ` Roel Janssen
2013-12-27 21:56     ` Ludovic Courtès

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