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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’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-05 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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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