Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayi...@gmail.com> skribis: > In that case, let me just mention a concrete annoyance I had which could > be fixed on the UI side: I find it useful to keep a plain text list of > all installed packages, in a format that can also be fed back in. So > far I used "guix package -I | awk '{print $1}'", but that doesn't handle > outputs. A little AWK hackery could do it, but parsing that output is > probably wrong to begin with. Maybe a --machine-readable flag could be > added, which would ideally list alternate outputs in the foo:bar format > so they can directly be fed back in.
Right. I think we could change ‘guix package’ to display one line per output, similar to what I suggested for guix.el. Thanks, Ludo’.