From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Paul Jewell via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Jewell <paul@teulu.org>
Subject: Re: Command consistency: suggestion
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:47:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ydf90bk.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3b7573-2c31-14e9-40cb-e80b9893150e@teulu.org> (Paul Jewell via's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2023 12:22:48 +0000")
Paul Jewell via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Good morning!
>
> It struck me this weekend that there is some difference in the command structure
> for the different guix sub commands. For example:
>
> guix package --list-generations
>
> and
>
> guix system list-generations
>
> guix package has everything as an flag, but guix system (and guix home) uses the
> concept of ACTION with options and arguments.
>
> Perhaps the latter is clearer, and guix package should also follow the same
> model?
+1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-09 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-09 12:22 Command consistency: suggestion Paul Jewell via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-01-09 15:47 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2023-01-11 21:51 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-16 17:59 ` Paul Jewell via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-01-17 8:23 ` zimoun
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