Re: Installing multiple packages at once

[Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>]

On 09/22/2013 11:23 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:
>
>> Someone on IRC said that they would prefer to write ‘-i foo bar baz’
>> instead of ‘-i foo -i bar -i baz’.  Should we change this or allow both
>> variants?  And how hard would it be?
>
> Currently -i takes an argument, hence this syntax.
>
> What would be the syntax?  Remember we want to allow users to both
> install and remove packages in a single transaction, as in:
>
>    guix package -r bigloo -r hop -i guile -i racket
>
> We could imagine something like:
>
>    guix package -r bigloo hop -i guile racket
>
> but I don’t think SRFI-37 allows us to know that ‘bigloo’ and ‘hop’
> occurred after ‘-r’ whereas the others occurred after ‘-i’.  And I don’t
> really like the syntax.
>
> In short, while open to suggestions, I’m mostly in favor of the
> status quo.  :-)
>

Could we use:

guix package -i foo,bar

?

Cyril.