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From: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix package -u --fallback does nothing
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:25:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170725172501.exwy6gucx5lqv4s4@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmo8ln18.fsf@gnu.org>

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Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.6K bytes:
> Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> 
> > Am 25.07.2017 um 11:35 schrieb Hartmut Goebel:
> >> "guix package -u --fallback" when run another time does *nothing*. "guix
> This is a common mistake though, so we could change ‘guix package’ to at
> least emit a warning then the regexp starts with a hyphen.
> 
> Thoughts?

Yes, I agree. A warning would be useful for those who forget that
--update / -u acts this way.
Or maybe a error message + something like this in addition:

guix package --update --bazinga is wrong, did you mean guix package --bazinga --update

> Ludo’.
> 
> 

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-25 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-25  9:35 guix package -u --fallback does nothing Hartmut Goebel
2017-07-25 11:16 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-07-25 12:27   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-25 17:25     ` ng0 [this message]

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