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Subject: Re: [PATCH] guix package: add a "show" option.
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:03:33 +0200
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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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