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From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Subject: Listing all packages with --search now impossible
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:22:56 +0100
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Hi

Yesterday when I played around with guix I noticed that the default 
behavior of
$ guix package --search
guix package: error: invalid argument: Missing required argument after 
`--search'

has changed recently from showing all packages to now showing none.

also:

$ guix package --search *
guix package: error: invalid argument: Missing required argument after 
`--search'

This is a bug. "*" should match everything.

Is this intentional?

This means that now users have to know guile to list all packages with 
all the fields. :/
-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia