On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 04:05:11PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> guix-commits@gnu.org skribis:
> 
> > efraim pushed a commit to branch master
> > in repository guix.
> >
> > commit c39491829a0c1d870f8133b8f7a699152fc71503
> > Author: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
> > Date:   Wed Dec 19 22:08:18 2018 +0200
> >
> >     scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively.
> >     
> >     * guix/scripts/refresh.scm (refresh-recursive, list-transitive): New
> >     procedures.
> >     (show-help): Document it.
> >     (guix-refresh): Add flags and checks for new options.
> >     * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Document new options.
> 
> Nice work!
> 
> > +@item --list-transitive
> > +List all the packages which one or more packages depend upon.
> 
> What about ‘--list-dependencies’, for clarity and symmetry with
> ‘--list-dependents’?
> 

It was originally '--list-recursive' but Bavier suggested
'--list-transitive' so it would match 'guix build --sources=transitive'

If it's too close to '--list-dependents' then I'm worried people could
look at it and ask 'packages FOO is dependent on or packages that are
dependent on FOO?'

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