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.

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