From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 47911@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47911: Improving the package outputs UI
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:52:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YH93Y0gqIO4yoF9I@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgxslii6.fsf@nckx>
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:05:05AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Leo Famulari writes:
> > Another idea I had is to make Guix accept the concatenation of
> > packagename-output in the UI.
>
> I'm firmly against this (but read on :-)
>
> > For example, `guix install git-send-email`, instead of `git:send-email`.
> >
> > But maybe that is going too far, I'm not sure.
>
> I think it is, but the intention is good.
It's definitely pie-in-the-sky daydreaming :)
> Instead, Guix could suggest (‘did you mean...?’) like it does for commands.
>
> ~ λ guix install git-send-email
> guix install: error: git-send-email: unknown package
> hint: Did you mean one of:
> git:send-email
I think that's a better idea.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 0:54 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 [this message]
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
2021-04-21 0:59 ` Leo Famulari
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