Re: guix environment --load vs. --file inconsistency

2021-09-24 Thread Robin Templeton
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Attila, > > Attila Lendvai skribis: > >> i was writing the documentation of a guix.scm file, and i realized that >> there's an inconsistency among the three most used commands in this context: >> >> so, there's: >> - guix build --file >> - guix package --file >> >>

Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?

2020-10-24 Thread Robin Templeton
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > As discussed on IRC recently, several of us think that using “#true” and > “#false” instead of “#t” and “#f” throughout or documentation and code > would probably make it easier for newcomers to decipher that. > > WDYT? > > This syntax is supported since

Re: hint: Run `guix search ... | less' to view all the results

2020-06-24 Thread Robin Templeton
Marius Bakke writes: > Robin Templeton writes: > >> Seconded! The current behavior seems exactly backwards compared to most >> *nix tools; if I wanted *less* information from "guix search" I'd >> manually pipe the output into head or recsel. Perhaps Git-

Re: hint: Run `guix search ... | less' to view all the results

2020-06-23 Thread Robin Templeton
Jan Synacek writes: > Hello, > > I'm going to give honest feedback, since I still care about some things. > > I decided to check the new guix-1.1.0 and one of the first things that I ran > was: > > $ guix package -s firefox > > The resulting message was infuriating to say the least. The code say