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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: Installing multiple packages at once
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:53:15 -0400
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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> writes:

> Someone on IRC said that they would prefer to write =E2=80=98-i foo bar b=
az=E2=80=99
> instead of =E2=80=98-i foo -i bar -i baz=E2=80=99.  Should we change this=
 or allow both
> variants?  And how hard would it be?

You can do this:

  guix package --install=3D{foo,bar,baz}

which the shell expands to the right thing before Guix is run.

    Mark