Re: guix.el & multiple outputs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <address@hidden> skribis:

> In that case, let me just mention a concrete annoyance I had which could
> be fixed on the UI side: I find it useful to keep a plain text list of
> all installed packages, in a format that can also be fed back in.  So
> far I used "guix package -I | awk '{print $1}'", but that doesn't handle
> outputs.  A little AWK hackery could do it, but parsing that output is
> probably wrong to begin with.  Maybe a --machine-readable flag could be
> added, which would ideally list alternate outputs in the foo:bar format
> so they can directly be fed back in.

Right.  I think we could change ‘guix package’  to display one line per
output, similar to what I suggested for guix.el.

Thanks,
Ludo’.