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Subject: Re: Installing multiple packages at once
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:23:16 +0200
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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

> Someone on IRC said that they would prefer to write =E2=80=98-i foo bar b=
az=E2=80=99
> instead of =E2=80=98-i foo -i bar -i baz=E2=80=99.  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=E2=80=99t think SRFI-37 allows us to know that =E2=80=98bigloo=E2=
=80=99 and =E2=80=98hop=E2=80=99
occurred after =E2=80=98-r=E2=80=99 whereas the others occurred after =E2=
=80=98-i=E2=80=99.  And I don=E2=80=99t
really like the syntax.

In short, while open to suggestions, I=E2=80=99m mostly in favor of the
status quo.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.