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Re: Reorganizing guix package commands
From: |
Christopher Allan Webber |
Subject: |
Re: Reorganizing guix package commands |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:56:47 -0500 |
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Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-18 20:20 +0300) wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I can see how adding “package” everywhere helps categorize things
>>> mentally, but as a user interface, I think it would be rather bad.
>>
>> As a user, I think it would be rather good. (This is just my user opinion)
>
> To clarify, what I meant is that forcing users to type an additional
> word for common operations just for the beauty of categorization sounds
> unwise to me.
>
> For instance, I’m happy I can type ‘ls’ rather than ‘gnu core file list’.
> :-)
>
> Similarly, it’s not immediately obvious to me that something like “guix
> package edit” and “guix package install” would help newcomers.
>
> On the contrary, they would likely violate the rule of least surprise:
> most other tools provide sub-commands like “install”, some provide
> “edit” and “build” as well, without further categorization.
This makes sense to me.
I think it's also worth noting that this is prime ground for bikeshed[0]
territory. So it's worth discussing and making changes, but not losing
hair over.
- Chris
[0] http://shed.bike/
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, (continued)
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Hartmut Goebel, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Alex Kost, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, John Darrington, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, myglc2, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, myglc2, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands,
Christopher Allan Webber <=
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, myglc2, 2016/04/19
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, John Darrington, 2016/04/20
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Alex Kost, 2016/04/20
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, myglc2, 2016/04/20
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Alex Kost, 2016/04/20
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2016/04/20
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/04/20
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, myglc2, 2016/04/21
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, John Darrington, 2016/04/21
- Re: Reorganizing guix package commands, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2016/04/20