From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Package Installation Queries Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:39:16 +0100 Message-ID: <8737fa1kbf.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87vaskuzgd.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> <87bmub3cqi.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfPpz-0007UQ-FR for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2017 06:39:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cfPpy-00044Z-JJ for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2017 06:39:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <87bmub3cqi.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Carlo Zancanaro , Help-Guix@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > I’ve been thinking we should have a way to hook importers and updaters > directly to the command-line interface to facilitate this kind of > experimentation. Say: > > guix package --importer=elpa -i something > > which would import ‘something’ and its dependencies on the fly. This would be great! For that to work reliably, though, we need to improve the importers a little more. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net