Ludovic Courtès writes: > Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2016-04-18 20:20 +0300) wrote: > > [...] > >>> I can see how adding “package” everywhere helps categorize things >>> mentally, but as a user interface, I think it would be rather bad. >> >> As a user, I think it would be rather good. (This is just my user opinion) > > To clarify, what I meant is that forcing users to type an additional > word for common operations just for the beauty of categorization sounds > unwise to me. > > For instance, I’m happy I can type ‘ls’ rather than ‘gnu core file list’. > :-) > > Similarly, it’s not immediately obvious to me that something like “guix > package edit” and “guix package install” would help newcomers. > > On the contrary, they would likely violate the rule of least surprise: > most other tools provide sub-commands like “install”, some provide > “edit” and “build” as well, without further categorization.
This makes sense to me. I think it's also worth noting that this is prime ground for bikeshed[0] territory. So it's worth discussing and making changes, but not losing hair over. - Chris [0] http://shed.bike/
