Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:
Someone on IRC said that they would prefer to write ‘-i foo bar baz’
instead of ‘-i foo -i bar -i baz’. Should we change this or allow both
variants? And how hard would it be?
Currently -i takes an argument, hence this syntax.
What would be the syntax? Remember we want to allow users to both
install and remove packages in a single transaction, as in:
guix package -r bigloo -r hop -i guile -i racket
We could imagine something like:
guix package -r bigloo hop -i guile racket
but I don’t think SRFI-37 allows us to know that ‘bigloo’ and ‘hop’
occurred after ‘-r’ whereas the others occurred after ‘-i’. And I don’t
really like the syntax.
In short, while open to suggestions, I’m mostly in favor of the
status quo. :-)