From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <Guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New ‘guix graph’ command
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 16:54:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=Rwfacm_8=eM61mZx_mFDBZ2H+FuWP=r9hKLfnyFtof7KD2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u8n1b9u.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>
>> Very neat indeed! A tiny bit of nitpicking: Would it not be preferable if
>> the arrows were reversed, from the inputs to the dependent packages?
>
> Dunno, maybe the graph people would choose the other direction but I
> like it this way, looks more “intuitive” to me. What do people think?
I prefer it the way that it is because it reflects the actual data
structure. It's intuitive because I often ask "what does this
software depend on?", not "what depends on this software?"
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-26 22:53 New ‘guix graph’ command Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-27 9:25 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-08-27 10:58 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-08-27 11:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-27 15:15 ` Alex Kost
2015-08-27 15:20 ` Leo Famulari
2015-08-27 15:34 ` Thompson, David
2015-08-27 20:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-27 21:01 ` Thompson, David
2015-09-03 20:32 ` Andreas Enge
2015-09-03 20:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-03 20:54 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2015-09-03 20:55 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-09-04 8:13 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-09-04 9:49 ` Andreas Enge
2015-09-11 0:02 ` Cyril Roelandt
2015-09-11 7:19 ` Leo Famulari
2015-09-11 12:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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