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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing multiple packages at once
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:53:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4cgwmk4.fsf@tines.lan> (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> writes:

> 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?

You can do this:

  guix package --install={foo,bar,baz}

which the shell expands to the right thing before Guix is run.

    Mark

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-22 21:53 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
2013-09-22 21:08   ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-09-22 21:53 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2013-09-22 22:21   ` Ludovic Courtès

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