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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: swedebugia@riseup.net, 33673@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33673: "guix system --help" does not detail how to use --on-error=strategy
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:10:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg4wyopd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181211071841.GC1323@macbook41> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:18:51 +0200")

Hi!

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> Improvements are always welcome of course.  The main criterion would be
>> to remain consistent with the rest of Guix and with GNU conventions that
>> we follow.  Maybe it’s best to discuss what you have in mind first?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Ludo’.
>> 
>
> I'd go with (one of: nothing-special, backtrace, debug)
> with the assumption that for more information the manual is more
> verbose.

Sounds good to me.  Would you like to send a patch?

> I also just noticed that we have 'man guix-system', which could be more
> verbose on the subject without needing to fit in a concise output.

Manual pages are generated from the ‘--help’ output, the canonical
documentation being the Info manual.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-11 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-08  8:05 error: rmdir: Device or resource busy Fredrik Salomonsson
2018-12-08  8:24 ` swedebugia
2018-12-08  8:30   ` bug#33673: "guix system --help" does not detail how to use --on-error=strategy swedebugia
2018-12-08 23:16     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-11  7:18       ` Efraim Flashner
2018-12-11  7:27         ` swedebugia
2018-12-11 17:10         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-12-14 18:52           ` bug#33673: PATCH: Fwd: " swedebugia
2018-12-18 10:54             ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-09  4:31   ` error: rmdir: Device or resource busy Fredrik Salomonsson

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