Re: guix.el & multiple outputs

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-07 01:11 +0400) wrote:

> Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> By the way, it might be nice to have an option to list the secondary
>> outputs of a package explicitly alongside the normal, as if it were just
>> another package.
>
> Currently *Guix Package List* shows, for instance:
>
>   gcc-toolchain        4.9.1      out, debug    debug, out    Complete GCC tool chain for C/C++ development
>
> Are you suggesting that it should instead show it as two lines?
>
>   gcc-toolchain        4.9.1      out      yes   Complete GCC tool chain for C/C++ development
>   gcc-toolchain        4.9.1      debug    yes   Complete GCC tool chain for C/C++ development
>
> I think I would prefer it.  (One advantage is that it would allow users
> to mark just one specific output, which is not currently possible.)

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OK, I think I can add support for such list of outputs and there may be
a variable for a user to choose what variant ("package list" or "output
list") he prefers.

I hope I will implement it soon, but I also need to improve the code for
getting information about packages (in “guix-main.scm”).  I'm thinking
hard on it :)