Order of listed packages

Order of listed packages

[Andreas Enge]

Currently,
   guix package -I
lists the latest installed package first, which often ends up scrolling
out of the window. However, this is most of the time where "things happen",
new packages get installed or rolled back.

So I would suggest to revert the order of packages, listing them from the
first to the most recently installed. The same applies probably to
--list-generations.

What do you think?

Andreas

Re: Order of listed packages

[Cyril Roelandt]

On 09/22/2013 03:29 PM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Currently,
>     guix package -I
> lists the latest installed package first, which often ends up scrolling
> out of the window. However, this is most of the time where "things happen",
> new packages get installed or rolled back.
>

Honestly, I'd like to have them listed alphabetically.

Cyril.

Re: Order of listed packages

[Andreas Enge]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 09:18:50PM +0200, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
> On 09/22/2013 03:29 PM, Andreas Enge wrote:
> >Currently,
> >    guix package -I
> >lists the latest installed package first, which often ends up scrolling
> >out of the window. However, this is most of the time where "things happen",
> >new packages get installed or rolled back.
> Honestly, I'd like to have them listed alphabetically.

But then how do you know what the effect of --roll-back will be?
To get them in alphabetical order, a simple solution is to pipe through
sort.

Andreas

Re: Order of listed packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 09:18:50PM +0200, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
>> On 09/22/2013 03:29 PM, Andreas Enge wrote:
>> >Currently,
>> >    guix package -I
>> >lists the latest installed package first, which often ends up scrolling
>> >out of the window. However, this is most of the time where "things happen",
>> >new packages get installed or rolled back.
>> Honestly, I'd like to have them listed alphabetically.
>
> But then how do you know what the effect of --roll-back will be?
> To get them in alphabetical order, a simple solution is to pipe through
> sort.

Agreed (‘sort -k1’).

Ludo’.

Re: Order of listed packages

[Nikita Karetnikov]

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> So I would suggest to revert the order of packages, listing them from
> the first to the most recently installed.

I agree.

> The same applies probably to --list-generations.

‘--list-generations’ already does this.

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Re: Order of listed packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> So I would suggest to revert the order of packages, listing them from
>> the first to the most recently installed.
>
> I agree.

Me too.

I’ll push the obvious fix in a moment.

Ludo’.

Re: Order of listed packages

[Nikita Karetnikov]

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>> The same applies probably to --list-generations.

> ‘--list-generations’ already does this.

Oh, I was talking about generations, so your argument is valid.  I agree
with this part as well, but let’s wait for other opinions.

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