Re: Guix CLI, thoughts and suggestions

[Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>]

This is something we're capable of too, right?
https://everything.curl.dev/libcurl/libcurl

Bost

Le lun. 22 janv. 2024 à 01:22, Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> a écrit :
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Sat, Jan 20 2024, Ian Eure wrote:
> > I agree that this would make sense, but my understanding is that `guix
> > package' doesn’t work like that -- it only performs the final
> > operation in the list.  IMO, it should either do *everything* the
> > commands specify, or print an error and take no action.
>
> It can accumulate multiple commands. As an example, if you create a
> profile with a single package in it:
>
>   $ guix package -i hello
>   The following package will be installed:
>      hello 2.12.1
>   ... more output...
>
> then you can remove that package and install another package in a single
> transaction:
>
>   $ guix package -r hello -i coreutils
>   The following package will be removed:
>      hello 2.12.1
>
>   The following package will be installed:
>      coreutils 9.1
>   ... more output...
>
> The inconsistency here is that some commands can be combined
> (specifically adding and removing), whereas others cannot (probably
> everything else).
>
> > I agree, I don’t think the situation can be improved without finding a
> > solution to preserve BC.  But, I didn’t think it was worth making
> > detailed plans for any of this before gauging whether the problem was
> > one broadly considered to be worth solving.
>
> I think it would be great to have a consistent CLI, so I would love it
> if we were able to solve this problem.
>
> Carlo
>