bug#47911: Improving the package outputs UI

2021-04-20 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:05:05AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > Another idea I had is to make Guix accept the concatenation of > > packagename-output in the UI. > > I'm firmly against this (but read on :-) > > > For example, `guix install git-send-email`,

bug#47911: Improving the package outputs UI

2021-04-20 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Leo Famulari writes: Another idea I had is to make Guix accept the concatenation of packagename-output in the UI. I'm firmly against this (but read on :-) For example, `guix install git-send-email`, instead of `git:send-email`. But maybe that is going too far, I'm not sure. I think it

bug#47911: Improving the package outputs UI

2021-04-20 Thread Leo Famulari
Another idea I had is to make Guix accept the concatenation of packagename-output in the UI. For example, `guix install git-send-email`, instead of `git:send-email`. But maybe that is going too far, I'm not sure. By the way, the #guix IRC discussion was here