From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IFdoYXTigJlzIHRoZSB3ZWF0aGVyIGxpa2U/?= Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:48:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bmodkem5.fsf@gnu.org> <87iniip5ii.fsf@gnu.org> <87pocqkmbz.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZeeu-0005TK-4l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:48:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZees-0003vc-2y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:48:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pocqkmbz.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> I hope the "weather" naming is only temporary and will migrate >> to a better one (more descriptive) before commit. >> >> Don't get me wrong, it's a cool name, for people that already >> know about the feature. But for guix newcomers, it will be >> confusing, IMHO. > > Note that it=E2=80=99s not meant for everyday use either. OK, but when newbs (like me) have problems they start trying random things, and if the naming is aprroximately right, we won't even need to ask on the ML... >> Not knowing what I'm talking about, I'd hazard a guess... >> guix substitute --status >> or something like that... > > =E2=80=98guix substitute=E2=80=99 exists but is an internal command. > > =E2=80=98guix status=E2=80=99 would be too vague. > > Naming is hard! Yep ;-) > Ludo=E2=80=99, who also has plans for a =E2=80=9Cguix health=E2=80=9D com= mand. :-) That one wouldn't be bad --=20 Vincent Legoll