Hi

On 2018-04-27 06:07, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In general I think `guix system` error feedback tends to be a tad too
>> shy.  Are there some plans to make them more explicit and precise?
> Did you know that you can ask for more verbose feedback with the
> --on-error option?  See (guix) Invoking guix system for details.
>
According to the manual this is the default strategy:

|nothing-special|

    Report the error concisely and exit. This is the default strategy.

Which in the case of Matija reports:

    guix system: error: stat: No such file or directory: "system"

Maybe we should add to this error message an information about the 
ability to choose another error strategy (to have more information about 
what went wrong), e.g.:

    guix system: error: stat: No such file or directory: "system"
    Note: More information on the error is availiable by choosing another error strategy.
    See (guix) Invoking guix system for details.

Cheers

Swedebugia