Nikita Karetnikov <nik...@karetnikov.org> 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. :-) Ludo’.
