Hi jgart,

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 at 17:33, "jgart" <jg...@dismail.de> wrote:

> Also, why not call this flag -l instead of -P like `guix refresh -l foo`?

As you read in the three messages starting here [1], this had been
discussed.  And the rationale is because one accepts an optional
argument and the other not.  Therefore, this could have been confusing.

The best choice would have been ’-M’ as with “guix graph” but already
taken by max-jobs under “guix refresh”.  Arf, hard topic to name
stuff. :-)

Cheers,
simon

1: [bug#74542] [PATCH 06/11] guix build: Add ‘--dependents’.
Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:33:45 +0100
id:c31c17a217129d7539ffc988e695f6ae0b39ff66.1732615193.git.l...@gnu.org
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74542
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/c31c17a217129d7539ffc988e695f6ae0b39ff66.1732615193.git.l...@gnu.org
https://yhetil.org/guix/c31c17a217129d7539ffc988e695f6ae0b39ff66.1732615193.git.l...@gnu.org

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