> What disturbs me with your suggestion is that it reuses the same syntax > that is already used for a different purpose. So in a sense you do > "operator overloading", and the same command line then means different > things depending on whether the package version is already provided by > Guix or not.
Yes, I see how that can be an CLI smell and "not Guixonic". Would be sweet to have something like it but I realize the negative of dirtying the current API's explicitness to get lower verbosity invocations at the shell prompt.
