On 2018-12-11 08:18, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi, >> >> [email protected] 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
