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bug#16187: Tabbed output of "guix package -l"
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#16187: Tabbed output of "guix package -l" |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:17:36 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Thanks for the report.
Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
> I'd like the output of a command like "guix package -l" to be tabbed
> preserving all columns.
>
> An example output of the current version:
> Generation 68 dec 18 2013 12:46:45 (current)
> make 4.0 out /nix/store/...
> automake 1.14 out /nix/store/...
> ...
>
> What I would like to see:
> make 4.0 out /nix/store/...
> automake 1.14 out /nix/store/...
> ...
>
> The same applies for the output of "guix package -I" and "guix package
> -A"
As discussed on IRC, the rationale (for -I and -A) was to have something
both human-readable and processable–that is, one can pipe it through
‘cut’ and extract the data. I think that’s an important property, for a
Unix command-line tool.
Now, ideally, ‘guix package’ would be just one of the user interfaces,
with others being more user-oriented than command-oriented (see TODO)...
What do you think?
Ludo’.