From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name>
Subject: Re: delete-generations or --delete-generations?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:59:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnnqzsui.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v93rb5lh.fsf@gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:27:06 +0200")
Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> I speculate too. :-) I guess because the idea behind “guix system” is
> one action at a time however “guix package” can compose actions in one
> transaction (guix package --install=foo --remove=bar). Using the
> default CLI parser (SRFI-37), it seems easier for composing to use the
> options (--<name-it>) than to extract actions. For instance, if it was
> “guix package <action>” as it is with “guix system”, then it is harder
> to parse the composition, i.e.,
Yeah, long ago Alex Kost and others proposed turning some of the current
‘guix package’ options into sub-sub-commands of a new ‘guix profile’
sub-command: ‘guix profile install foo’, ‘guix profile
delete-generations’, etc.
It may be consistent but maybe a bit far-fetched and annoying to type…
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-08 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-27 1:04 delete-generations or --delete-generations? Raghav Gururajan
2021-08-27 2:55 ` Jack Hill
2021-08-27 9:27 ` zimoun
2021-09-08 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-09-09 13:47 ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-09 14:14 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-09 14:44 ` Leo Famulari
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