bug#27067: Feature request: please allow for either automatic logging of all output of every guix commands or add an option to each guix command to allow it for all to be logged

2017-05-25 Thread Brenton Horne
o run for me before, so if it fails and doesn't log it can be quite an irritating waste of time and deter people from filing invaluable bug reports about issues they've experienced with guix. On 26 May 2017 at 06:10, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Brenton Horne writes: > > > As

bug#27067: Feature request: please allow for either automatic logging of all output of every guix commands or add an option to each guix command to allow it for all to be logged

2017-05-25 Thread Brenton Horne
I'm afraid I have no knowledge of Guile or Scheme. Looking at the Guile manual seems to indicate to me it's a language quite unlike most languages I've coded in. The only exception is that it does look a little like Emacs Lisp. On 26 May 2017 at 04:10, Arun Isaac wrote: > >

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2017-05-25 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, Thanks. This feature would still be useful though, but your idea makes it less urgent. Automatic logging still sounds like a good idea as the Guix package manager is quite slow for some operations at the moment (not criticising the developers of Guix, after all at this early stage of developme

bug#27067: Feature request: please allow for either automatic logging of all output of every guix commands or add an option to each guix command to allow it for all to be logged

2017-05-25 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, As I understand it only the guix build command has an option to log output to a file. I would like to request that each guix command have the option at least (if not automatic like it is for Gentoo's Portage package manager) to log all output to a file. I believe this will help both users and