From: swedebugia@riseup.net
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 33673@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33673: "guix system --help" does not detail how to use --on-error=strategy
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:27:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d30427b21a557ac811a79d8d828d4865@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181211071841.GC1323@macbook41>
On 2018-12-11 08:18, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> swedebugia@riseup.net skribis:
>>
>> > The current output is:
>> >
>> > --on-error=STRATEGY apply STRATEGY when an error occurs while reading
>> > FILE
>>
>> FWIW I think it’s reasonable for ‘--help’ to be generally more concise
>> than the manual. We could list the possible strategies here, but that
>> might clutter the output more than is desirable.
>>
>> > Additionally we now have so many commands in the help pages of guix
>> > system and guix build that it would be nice to present them in a more
>> > readable/categorized way.
>> >
>> > Would a patches for improvement in these areas be accepted?
>>
>> Improvements are always welcome of course. The main criterion would be
>> to remain consistent with the rest of Guix and with GNU conventions that
>> we follow. Maybe it’s best to discuss what you have in mind first?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Ludo’.
>>
>
> I'd go with (one of: nothing-special, backtrace, debug)
> with the assumption that for more information the manual is more
> verbose.
Sounds good to me. Clutter is a problem we already have it seems so lets
not make it worse.
>
> I also just noticed that we have 'man guix-system', which could be more
> verbose on the subject without needing to fit in a concise output.
Where do I edit this man-page?
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-11 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-08 8:05 error: rmdir: Device or resource busy Fredrik Salomonsson
2018-12-08 8:24 ` swedebugia
2018-12-08 8:30 ` bug#33673: "guix system --help" does not detail how to use --on-error=strategy swedebugia
2018-12-08 23:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-11 7:18 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-12-11 7:27 ` swedebugia [this message]
2018-12-11 17:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-14 18:52 ` bug#33673: PATCH: Fwd: " swedebugia
2018-12-18 10:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-09 4:31 ` error: rmdir: Device or resource busy Fredrik Salomonsson
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