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Subject: Re: Reorganizing guix package commands
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:24:44 +0200
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> While we're thinking about user interfaces, I believe a more abstract app=
roach
> would be  better at this stage:    What types of person are going to be=20
> interacting with Guix?  Developers?  Users?  Curious Bystanders?  Some ot=
her=20
> category of person?  --- Each of those are probably going to have a core =
set
> of commands which they use regualarly,  a few which they use occasionally=
 and
> some never.  Identifying those sets (which may intersect) is the first st=
ep
> to designing a good user interface.  That would help for both CLI and GUI.

I and others tried to start each of the =E2=80=9CInvoking=E2=80=9D sections=
 with a
sentence clarifying the intended audience of the command.

Probably we should try to reflect it more in the manual=E2=80=99s structure=
, so
it=E2=80=99s not clear to me exactly how.

Ludo=E2=80=99.