From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>,
Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie user question: What do the columns shown by "guix package -I" mean?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 11:53:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861qmbz8es.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6v8up7g.fsf@nckx>
Hi,
On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 21:31, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> I, personally, would welcome breaking their scripts—in exchange
> for adding a ‘--format=<something machine-readable>’ option like
> we already do for ‘guix search’. A real API that's actually
> reliable and supportable. I think that's fair.
Well, that’s something I would like since a very long time. Well, I
even probably started somewhere an extension as replacement.
By <something machine-readable>, do you mean some placeholders?
> I just think I'd be outvoted and don't feel like starting a fight
> :-)
That’s why extension. :-) It would avoid the fight and in the same time
it would help in designing such API allowing experimental breakage.
Well, I would also welcome this --format=<something machine-readable>. :-)
Cheers,
simon
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-26 19:49 Newbie user question: What do the columns shown by "guix package -I" mean? Rodrigo Morales
2023-02-26 20:03 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2023-02-26 20:17 ` Rodrigo Morales
[not found] ` <CAGxMbPYM3=-RtNq3fTFVydrjtmnq+AYYGJ3sOyjj4A1BB5J5bA@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-26 20:31 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2023-02-27 10:53 ` Simon Tournier [this message]
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