From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 01/01: scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively.
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:43:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvin2e6j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181225171003.GP2581@macbook41> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Tue, 25 Dec 2018 19:10:03 +0200")
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 04:05:11PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> guix-commits@gnu.org skribis:
>>
>> > efraim pushed a commit to branch master
>> > in repository guix.
>> >
>> > commit c39491829a0c1d870f8133b8f7a699152fc71503
>> > Author: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
>> > Date: Wed Dec 19 22:08:18 2018 +0200
>> >
>> > scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively.
>> >
>> > * guix/scripts/refresh.scm (refresh-recursive, list-transitive): New
>> > procedures.
>> > (show-help): Document it.
>> > (guix-refresh): Add flags and checks for new options.
>> > * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Document new options.
>>
>> Nice work!
>>
>> > +@item --list-transitive
>> > +List all the packages which one or more packages depend upon.
>>
>> What about ‘--list-dependencies’, for clarity and symmetry with
>> ‘--list-dependents’?
>>
>
> It was originally '--list-recursive' but Bavier suggested
> '--list-transitive' so it would match 'guix build --sources=transitive'
>
> If it's too close to '--list-dependents' then I'm worried people could
> look at it and ask 'packages FOO is dependent on or packages that are
> dependent on FOO?'
Good point. I do feel like ‘--list-dependencies’ is clearer though.
With ‘list-transitive’, since “transitive” is an adjective, I first
wondered: transitive what?
What do people think?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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[not found] ` <20181224103305.59E3520448@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-12-25 15:05 ` 01/01: scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-25 17:10 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-01-05 17:43 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-01-05 20:15 ` swedebugia
2019-01-08 16:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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