Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> skribis: > When you type an option that requires an argument, but don't provide one, you > get an error message that says there is a missing argument. There should > brobably be a hint on what values are acceptable. For instance, there is no > way to know from "guix package -v" or "guix package --help" what values are > accepted. In other cases, there is a --list-something option. > > Maybe -v is the only case where it would be useful to do something, because > you could guess its existence and not use a verbosity level. Maybe fixing the > help message to say --verbosity=[0-5] is enough?
Currently it says: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix build --help | grep -e -verbo -v, --verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- We could add “an integer between 0 and 2”, but this was left non-explicit in case we eventually extend it to -7 to +42. Maybe there’s a limit on what we can do to help users? :-) Ludo’.
