Re: Add guix install command

[Alex Kost]

Andy Wingo (2015-08-05 12:36 +0300) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think Guix's tooling is OK but it could be better.  As a user -- and
> I'm really trying to be a user and not a developer :-) -- my main
> interactions with a Guix system are installing, searching, and
> upgrading.  Sometimes mucking about with profiles, sometimes more
> involved things, but usually installing, searching, and upgrading, in
> that order.
>
> So to me the guix package command is a bit overkill for my uses and I
> always forget which options are which (often typing "guix install" only
> to be told there is no such thing, likewise for search, and is it search
> with big -S or little -s?).  I spend a lot of my time with guix looking
> at the --help output (and I still don't know why "guix help package"
> doesn't give me anything useful).
>
> I know that guix package is definitely the core interface, and the one
> that Guix wants.  However I would like to plead for adding more
> special-purpose subset interfaces :)  They will make user life better.
>
> Attached is a patch to implement "guix install".  It just copies over
> functionality from guix package.  We could refactor more but I would
> start with this as it is; when things need changes is the time to
> refactor, at least for me.  What do you think? :)

I don't mind the new commands, but I think this patch is unacceptable
because of the huge code duplicating.  Sorry if it was sounded rude, I
just think that refactoring needs to be done instead of copying pieces
from (guix scripts package).

-- 
Alex