Re: Reorganizing guix package commands

[John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>]

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:23:43AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
     Am 19.04.2016 um 09:52 schrieb Alex Kost:
     
     I like you suggestion, except for these:
     > Here is the summary of the changes I think it would be good to have:
     >
     > [...]
     > |-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------|
     > | guix package --list-generations   | guix profile --list-generations   |
     
     Why no replace the dashes here, too? This would IMHO be more consistent
     to the package sub-command?
     
I beleive the dashes should be removed, since list-generations is a requested 
action, not an option.  In Unix like systems we have the commands rm, ls, mv; NOT 
file --remove, file --list and file --move

But I know that some people like to use options for commands.

One possibility would be to have a set of standard aliases.  Then people who like
guix package --list-generations ; or
guix system --frobnicate
can use that.

Others can use

guixp-lg ; or
guixs-fb

This was the method used by aegis for many years and kept most people happy.

J'

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