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To: Tom <tomz@freedommail.ch>
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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