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Subject: Re: Installing multiple packages at once
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:21:39 +0200
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> writes:
>
>> Someone on IRC said that they would prefer to write =E2=80=98-i foo bar =
baz=E2=80=99
>> instead of =E2=80=98-i foo -i bar -i baz=E2=80=99.  Should we change thi=
s or allow both
>> variants?  And how hard would it be?
>
> You can do this:
>
>   guix package --install=3D{foo,bar,baz}
>
> which the shell expands to the right thing before Guix is run.

Indeed, even better.

Ludo=E2=80=99.