Hi, Thanks for the report.
Roel Janssen <[email protected]> skribis: > I'd like the output of a command like "guix package -l" to be tabbed > preserving all columns. > > An example output of the current version: > Generation 68 dec 18 2013 12:46:45 (current) > make 4.0 out /nix/store/... > automake 1.14 out /nix/store/... > ... > > What I would like to see: > make 4.0 out /nix/store/... > automake 1.14 out /nix/store/... > ... > > The same applies for the output of "guix package -I" and "guix package > -A" As discussed on IRC, the rationale (for -I and -A) was to have something both human-readable and processable–that is, one can pipe it through ‘cut’ and extract the data. I think that’s an important property, for a Unix command-line tool. Now, ideally, ‘guix package’ would be just one of the user interfaces, with others being more user-oriented than command-oriented (see TODO)... What do you think? Ludo’.
