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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: swedebugia@riseup.net, 33673@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33673: "guix system --help" does not detail how to use --on-error=strategy
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:18:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181211071841.GC1323@macbook41> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftv7623k.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> swedebugia@riseup.net skribis:
> 
> > The current output is:
> >
> > --on-error=STRATEGY    apply STRATEGY when an error occurs while reading
> > FILE
> 
> FWIW I think it’s reasonable for ‘--help’ to be generally more concise
> than the manual.  We could list the possible strategies here, but that
> might clutter the output more than is desirable.
> 
> > Additionally we now have so many commands in the help pages of guix
> > system and guix build that it would be nice to present them in a more
> > readable/categorized way.
> >
> > Would a patches for improvement in these areas be accepted?
> 
> Improvements are always welcome of course.  The main criterion would be
> to remain consistent with the rest of Guix and with GNU conventions that
> we follow.  Maybe it’s best to discuss what you have in mind first?
> 
> Thank you,
> Ludo’.
> 

I'd go with (one of: nothing-special, backtrace, debug)
with the assumption that for more information the manual is more
verbose.

I also just noticed that we have 'man guix-system', which could be more
verbose on the subject without needing to fit in a concise output.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-11  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-08  8:05 error: rmdir: Device or resource busy Fredrik Salomonsson
2018-12-08  8:24 ` swedebugia
2018-12-08  8:30   ` bug#33673: "guix system --help" does not detail how to use --on-error=strategy swedebugia
2018-12-08 23:16     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-11  7:18       ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2018-12-11  7:27         ` swedebugia
2018-12-11 17:10         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-14 18:52           ` bug#33673: PATCH: Fwd: " swedebugia
2018-12-18 10:54             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-09  4:31   ` error: rmdir: Device or resource busy Fredrik Salomonsson

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