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Subject: Re: Reorganizing guix package commands
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2016-04-18 20:20 +0300) wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I can see how adding =E2=80=9Cpackage=E2=80=9D everywhere helps categ=
orize things
>>> mentally, but as a user interface, I think it would be rather bad.
>>
>> As a user, I think it would be rather good.  (This is just my user opi=
nion)
>
> To clarify, what I meant is that forcing users to type an additional
> word for common operations just for the beauty of categorization sounds
> unwise to me.
>
> For instance, I=E2=80=99m happy I can type =E2=80=98ls=E2=80=99 rather =
than =E2=80=98gnu core file list=E2=80=99.
> :-)
>
> Similarly, it=E2=80=99s not immediately obvious to me that something li=
ke =E2=80=9Cguix
> package edit=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cguix package install=E2=80=9D would =
help newcomers.
>
> On the contrary, they would likely violate the rule of least surprise:
> most other tools provide sub-commands like =E2=80=9Cinstall=E2=80=9D, s=
ome provide
> =E2=80=9Cedit=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cbuild=E2=80=9D as well, without fur=
ther categorization.

This makes sense to me.

I think it's also worth noting that this is prime ground for bikeshed[0]
territory.  So it's worth discussing and making changes, but not losing
hair over.

 - Chris

[0] http://shed.bike/