From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing multiple packages at once
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:23:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4cg4kl7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9j4ppr6.fsf@karetnikov.org> (Nikita Karetnikov's message of "Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:26:05 +0400")
Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:
> Someone on IRC said that they would prefer to write ‘-i foo bar baz’
> instead of ‘-i foo -i bar -i baz’. Should we change this or allow both
> variants? And how hard would it be?
Currently -i takes an argument, hence this syntax.
What would be the syntax? Remember we want to allow users to both
install and remove packages in a single transaction, as in:
guix package -r bigloo -r hop -i guile -i racket
We could imagine something like:
guix package -r bigloo hop -i guile racket
but I don’t think SRFI-37 allows us to know that ‘bigloo’ and ‘hop’
occurred after ‘-r’ whereas the others occurred after ‘-i’. And I don’t
really like the syntax.
In short, while open to suggestions, I’m mostly in favor of the
status quo. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-22 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-22 20:26 Installing multiple packages at once Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-22 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-09-22 21:08 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-09-22 21:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-09-22 22:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
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