* bug#22598: 'info guix' fails on guixSD
@ 2016-02-08 12:50 myglc2
2016-02-08 22:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: myglc2 @ 2016-02-08 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 22598
'man guix' is quite likely the first thing a new user types. The man
page is a stub to 'info guix'...
GUIX(1)
[...]
If the info and guix programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info guix
should give you access to the complete manual.
However, on guixSD, 'info guix' produces 'bash: info: command not
found'.
While this result is technically understandable, it does seem rather
user-unfriendly.
Work arounds (tested on guixSD) are ...
1 guix environment guix
info guix
2 tell the user that if info doesn't work, install it.
But both of these seem like bad things to say on the first man page.
From a usability point of view, it would probably be best to include
info in the global guixSD packages.
SIDE THOUGHT:
I love reading and using info in emacs. However, I will do almost
anything to avoid having to use the actual info program. I expect many
potential guix users are the same, or, more likely, have never heard of
info.
To improve the "man-points-to-info" man strategy (which I fully support)
perhaps guixSD and guix should include a user-friendly info reader and
the man page should point to that.
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* bug#22598: 'info guix' fails on guixSD
2016-02-08 12:50 bug#22598: 'info guix' fails on guixSD myglc2
@ 2016-02-08 22:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2016-02-08 22:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: myglc2; +Cc: 22598-done
myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
> However, on guixSD, 'info guix' produces 'bash: info: command not
> found'.
Indeed, not great. Fixed in 939c5c3.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
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