Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 04:05:11PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello! >> >> guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: >> >> > efraim pushed a commit to branch master >> > in repository guix. >> > >> > commit c39491829a0c1d870f8133b8f7a699152fc71503 >> > Author: Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> >> > Date: Wed Dec 19 22:08:18 2018 +0200 >> > >> > scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively. >> > >> > * guix/scripts/refresh.scm (refresh-recursive, list-transitive): New >> > procedures. >> > (show-help): Document it. >> > (guix-refresh): Add flags and checks for new options. >> > * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Document new options. >> >> Nice work! >> >> > +@item --list-transitive >> > +List all the packages which one or more packages depend upon. >> >> What about ‘--list-dependencies’, for clarity and symmetry with >> ‘--list-dependents’? >> > > It was originally '--list-recursive' but Bavier suggested > '--list-transitive' so it would match 'guix build --sources=transitive' > > If it's too close to '--list-dependents' then I'm worried people could > look at it and ask 'packages FOO is dependent on or packages that are > dependent on FOO?'
Good point. I do feel like ‘--list-dependencies’ is clearer though. With ‘list-transitive’, since “transitive” is an adjective, I first wondered: transitive what? What do people think? Thanks, Ludo’.
