From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix does not find packages
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:49:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wo8hxqj9.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zg2fwn7.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:02:20 +0100")
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
> Zelphir Kaltstahl 写道：
>> And then there is the strange issue, that I cannot install font
>> packages:
>>
>> `guix package -i font-fira-code font-fire-mono font-fire-sans`
>>
>> Gives:
>>
>> `guix package: error: font-fire-mono: unknown package`
>
> This is just a typo. Correct it and try again ;-)
>
>> Is my Guix installation buggy? I never did anything weird to it,
>> only
>> ever used the Guix CLI commands to interact with it.
>
> No. It was a deliberate decision to make ‘guix search’/‘guix package
> -s’ show only the ‘top’ result when stdout is a TTY. I don't like it
> either. The argument was that packages are sorted with the most
> relevant one at the top, which would scroll out of view.
Oh. Thanks for explaining that.
>
> I *still* think we should either do nothing, or call $PAGER
> automatically when stdout is a TTY.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
>
--
Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-19 14:38 Guix does not find packages Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-02-19 14:58 ` John Soo
2020-02-19 15:45 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-02-19 15:00 ` Joshua Branson
2020-02-19 15:02 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-02-19 15:06 ` John Soo
2020-02-19 15:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-23 20:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-19 15:41 ` zimoun
2020-02-20 15:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-20 14:49 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
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