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Subject: Re: 01/01: scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively.
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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 04:05:11PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> Hello!
>>=20
>> guix-commits@gnu.org skribis:
>>=20
>> > 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.
>> >=20=20=20=20=20
>> >     * guix/scripts/refresh.scm (refresh-recursive, list-transitive): N=
ew
>> >     procedures.
>> >     (show-help): Document it.
>> >     (guix-refresh): Add flags and checks for new options.
>> >     * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Document new options.
>>=20
>> Nice work!
>>=20
>> > +@item --list-transitive
>> > +List all the packages which one or more packages depend upon.
>>=20
>> What about =E2=80=98--list-dependencies=E2=80=99, for clarity and symmet=
ry with
>> =E2=80=98--list-dependents=E2=80=99?
>>=20
>
> It was originally '--list-recursive' but Bavier suggested
> '--list-transitive' so it would match 'guix build --sources=3Dtransitive'
>
> 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 =E2=80=98--list-dependencies=E2=80=99 is cleare=
r though.
With =E2=80=98list-transitive=E2=80=99, since =E2=80=9Ctransitive=E2=80=9D =
is an adjective, I first
wondered: transitive what?

What do people think?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.