Re: Transformations Shell Syntax

[Ludovic Courtès]

HI,

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> skribis:

> As one who also would like a shorter syntax option, here's a quick thought: 
> what about a short version of what we have for when there is only one package 
> given or it can be applied to all packages/be a positional argument? An 
> example is perhaps best, so what if we could write:
>
> guix shell <package> --with-latest
>
> or guix shell <package> -<a letter which is available>
>
> which is short for
>
> guix shell <package> --with-latest=<package>
>
> or even
>
> guix shell <package1> <package2> <package3> --with-latest
>
> to apply to all packages.

This should be possible.  We should check the option parsers and
transformation procedures in (guix transformations).

> Or something like
>
> guix shell <package1> <package2> --with-git-url=<a git url for package3> 
> <package3>
>
> and so on.

This I’m unsure; one might argue that it’s also ambiguous, I’d always
wonder what ‘--with-git-url’ applies to.

Thanks,
Ludo’.