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To: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
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Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:

> In that case, let me just mention a concrete annoyance I had which could
> be fixed on the UI side: I find it useful to keep a plain text list of
> all installed packages, in a format that can also be fed back in.  So
> far I used "guix package -I | awk '{print $1}'", but that doesn't handle
> outputs.  A little AWK hackery could do it, but parsing that output is
> probably wrong to begin with.  Maybe a --machine-readable flag could be
> added, which would ideally list alternate outputs in the foo:bar format
> so they can directly be fed back in.

Right.  I think we could change =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99  to display =
one line per
output, similar to what I suggested for guix.el.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.