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From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Extracting a reachability path out of a (package) DAG
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:32:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717123211.175f52ac@alma-ubu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180717082424.qbvf4cv7omirkp2r@abyayala>

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:24:24 +0000
Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> wrote:


> To add to this idea:
> abyayala$ nix why-depends --help
> Usage: nix why-depends <FLAGS>... <PACKAGE> <DEPENDENCY>
> 
> Summary: show why a package has another package in its closure.

[..]

> Would it be useful to have a guix package subcommand which replicates
> this?


Yeah, would be nice. Because that was missing, I created that script
for me.

Björn

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-17 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-17  8:10 Extracting a reachability path out of a (package) DAG Björn Höfling
2018-07-17  8:22 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-07-17 10:29   ` Björn Höfling
2018-07-17  8:24 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-07-17 10:32   ` Björn Höfling [this message]
2018-07-17 15:09     ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-07-21 21:55       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-07-22 18:53         ` Alex Kost
2018-07-22 18:59           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-07-22 19:18             ` Björn Höfling
2018-07-23 13:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-04  3:54 ` Chris Marusich

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