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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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To: Ludovic =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,

On Sun, 28 May 2017 23:12:44 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:

> Hello,
>=20
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>=20
> >> Perhaps for `guix package`, but I disagree for `guix build` and others.
> >> It prints *only* the new store items on stdout, and this makes it very
> >> easy to compose Guix commands. We should not break this. =20
> >
> > I agree. guix build is different.  Its whole point is to do that.
> >
> > The scripts I mean are:
> > - guix package
> > - guix system =20
>=20
> Agreed for these.

I forgot guix environment.

> I=E2=80=99ve just pushed an old experiment as =E2=80=98wip-ui=E2=80=99 to=
 give an idea of what I
> mean.  If it still works, =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 shows N line abo=
ut the ongoing

I'll check it out...

> progress, where N is the number of parallel jobs (--max-jobs).  It could
> be as concise as this:
> <http://nim-lang.org/news/e029_version_0_16_0.html>.

Hmm, is that the correct URL ? :)