Re: CLI reorganization revisited

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

swedebugia <address@hidden> skribis:

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> *From*:       Ludovic Courtès
> *Subject*:    Re: Another cli interface for guix/sd
> *Date*:       Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:46:33 +0200
> *User-agent*:         Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)
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>> For a start, I think we should focus on ‘guix package’ since there’s
>> consensus that it does too much.  What do we leave in it?  What do we
>> take out?  Should we add a ‘guix profile’ command to deal with
>> generations, but not to install/remove/upgrade packages?
>>
>> Similarly, as has been discussed before, we should probably add ‘guix
>> install’, ‘guix remove’, and ‘guix upgrade’ aliases that do what we
>> would expect.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> +1
> Did anything happen after this message above by Ludo'? (source 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00845.html)

No.

> I like the idea of taking generation and profile out of package.

Yeah, I’m not so sure.  :-)

> I would like to go ahead preparing a patch for the aliases for ‘guix 
> install’, ‘guix remove’, and ‘guix upgrade’.

That would be sweet!

Thanks,
Ludo’.