From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: 02/05: guix package: -A and -s take supported systems into account. Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:34:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20150423123425.GA12606@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> References: <20150419213459.12473.29783@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87h9s87mv9.fsf@netris.org> <87lhhji3aw.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGL8-000390-I6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:34:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGKw-0006Yi-9v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:34:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lhhji3aw.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:47:51AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The subject line of the commit was misleading: -s actually still reports > all the available packages, but with an added ‘systems:’ line. This is actually a very good feature, I think. > I thought it might be helpful for -A/--list-available to only list > packages that are really “available” in the sense that they can be > built, to avoid deluding users. Both approaches make sense here. Maybe we need a flag? Maybe we could show all packages and add a column with "*" if the package is installable on the current system? Maybe we could add another command? Andreas