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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 47911@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47911: Improving the package outputs UI
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:05:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgxslii6.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YH8S2EQa/xaqrR6u@jasmine.lan>

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Leo Famulari writes:
> Another idea I had is to make Guix accept the concatenation of
> packagename-output in the UI.

I'm firmly against this (but read on :-)

>
> For example, `guix install git-send-email`, instead of 
> `git:send-email`.
>
> But maybe that is going too far, I'm not sure.

I think it is, but the intention is good.

Instead, Guix could suggest (‘did you mean...?’) like it does for 
commands.

  ~ λ guix install git-send-email
  guix install: error: git-send-email: unknown package
  hint: Did you mean one of:
  git:send-email

Kind regards,

T G-R

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 17:38 bug#47911: Package outputs should be described in the UI Leo Famulari
2021-04-20 17:43 ` bug#47911: Improving the package outputs UI Leo Famulari
2021-04-20 22:05   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2021-04-21  0:52     ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-20 19:42 ` bug#47911: Package outputs should be described in the UI Bone Baboon via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-20 21:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-21  0:59   ` Leo Famulari

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