Howdy! Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> There’s currently no flag to change this behavior. Instead, you >> have to >> run ‘guix pull -l’ but it’s arguably not very convenient. >> >> Perhaps we could add an environment variable specifying whether/how >> to >> truncate? I’d keep the default as it is now. > > AIUC, this list of changes is displayed once and then ‘lost’ (to the > average user) when they clear their screen, right? Yup. > Or is there a command that returns this nice list of differences > between two guix-profiles that we could suggest running when the > default is truncated? It could default to current and current-1, and > would solve both (minor) irritations. I think that’s a good idea. What about a ‘--news’ option along with a hint as in the attached patch? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix pull --news New in this revision: 9 new packages: cl-log4cl, ecl-log4cl, emacs-ace-jump-mode, emacs-ace-link, libomp, lucene++, mate-power-manager, poedit, sbcl-log4cl 63 packages upgraded: aj-snapshot@0.9.9, avrdude@6.3, bridge-utils@1.6, burp@2.3.4, calf@0.90.2, certbot@0.33.1, cl-bordeaux-threads@0.8.6-1.5dce49f, conky@1.11.3, connman@1.37, csound@6.12.2, darktable@2.6.2, docker-cli@18.09.5, docker@18.09.5, dungeon-crawl-stone-soup-tiles@0.23.2, dungeon-crawl-stone-soup@0.23.2, ecl-bordeaux-threads@0.8.6-1.5dce49f, eolie@0.9.60, etl@1.2.2, eyed3@0.8.10, fswatch@1.14.0, gtkwave@3.3.100, guix@0.16.0-13.b8b1e4d, highlight@3.50, http-parser@2.9.2, hypre-openmpi@2.15.1, hypre@2.15.1, java-openmpi@4.0.1, khal@0.10.1, knot@2.8.1, libmbim@1.18.2, libqmi@1.22.4, libwacom@0.33, lm-sensors@3.5.0, meld@3.20.1, minetest@5.0.1, musl@1.1.22, ncdc@1.21, ncmpc@0.34, nginx@1.15.12, openmpi-thread-multiple@4.0.1, openmpi@4.0.1, perl-net-dns@1.20, python-acme@0.33.1, python-dask@1.2.0, python-pygit2@0.28.0, python2-dask@1.2.0, python2-pygit2@0.28.0, qjackctl@0.5.7, qsynth@0.5.6, quilt@0.66, rubberband@1.8.2, rust@1.34.0, sbcl-bordeaux-threads@0.8.6-1.5dce49f, singular@4.1.2p1, snd@19.3, socat@1.7.3.3, spice-gtk@0.36, synfig@1.2.2, synfigstudio@1.2.2, the-legend-of-edgar@1.31, toxic@0.8.3, wireshark@3.0.1, yubikey-personalization@1.19.3 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I’ll push it with documentation if there are no objections. Thanks! Ludo’.