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Re: Transformations Shell Syntax
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jgart |
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Re: Transformations Shell Syntax |
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Tue, 23 May 2023 17:20:17 +0000 |
> What disturbs me with your suggestion is that it reuses the same syntax
> that is already used for a different purpose. So in a sense you do
> "operator overloading", and the same command line then means different
> things depending on whether the package version is already provided by
> Guix or not.
Yes, I see how that can be an CLI smell and "not Guixonic".
Would be sweet to have something like it but I realize the negative of dirtying
the current API's explicitness to get lower verbosity invocations at the shell
prompt.