Re: What’s the weather like?

[Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I hope the "weather" naming is only temporary and will migrate
>> to a better one (more descriptive) before commit.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong, it's a cool name, for people that already
>> know about the feature. But for guix newcomers, it will be
>> confusing, IMHO.
>
> Note that it’s not meant for everyday use either.

OK, but when newbs (like me) have problems they start trying
random things, and if the naming is aprroximately right, we won't
even need to ask on the ML...

>> Not knowing what I'm talking about, I'd hazard a guess...
>> guix substitute --status
>> or something like that...
>
> ‘guix substitute’ exists but is an internal command.
>
> ‘guix status’ would be too vague.
>
> Naming is hard!

Yep ;-)

> Ludo’, who also has plans for a “guix health” command.  :-)

That one wouldn't be bad

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Vincent Legoll