From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] guix package: add a "show" option.
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:03:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140714090333.GA7098@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877g3giaxd.fsf@serenity.home>
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:47:42AM +0200, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
Hello,
Andreas Enge writes:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:32:33PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>> No strong opinion, but this seems a bit redundant with ???--search???, for
>> example:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ guix package -s guile | recsel -e 'name = "guile-cairo"'
>
> It is an option I missed, not knowing recsel. I think it would be useful.
>
> Andreas
+1.
I like the show option providing user-friendly syntactic sugar.
Too much sugar early in the life of a project leads to chronic and possibly fatal disease
in middle age.
J'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-14 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-13 18:54 [PATCH] guix package: add a "show" option Cyril Roelandt
2014-07-13 21:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-14 8:41 ` Andreas Enge
2014-07-14 8:47 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2014-07-14 9:03 ` John Darrington [this message]
2014-07-15 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-17 0:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] guix ui: add the "depends" field to package->recutils: Cyril Roelandt
2014-07-17 0:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] guix package: add a "show" option Cyril Roelandt
2014-07-17 23:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-17 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] guix ui: add the "depends" field to package->recutils: Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-20 23:48 ` [PATCH v3 " Cyril Roelandt
2014-07-21 15:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-20 23:49 ` [PATCH v2 " Cyril Roelandt
2014-07-21 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
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