Dear, I am always annoyed when I use "guix graph" because most of the time I run: guix graph htop | grep label or something along these lines. Instead, the patch avoids the grep part: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ ./pre-inst-env guix graph -b plain htop htop@3.0.2 autoconf@2.69 perl@5.30.2 m4@1.4.18 automake@1.16.2 autoconf-wrapper@2.69 guile@2.0.14 pkg-config@0.29.2 libffi@3.3 bash-minimal@5.0.16 libunistring@0.9.10 libltdl@2.4.6 libgc@8.0.4 gmp@6.2.0 bash@5.0.16 readline@8.0.4 ncurses@6.2 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It is then easier to pipe with other Guix commands, for example: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix build $(./pre-inst-env guix graph -b plain htop | grep bash) substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% 0.9 MB will be downloaded: /gnu/store/m4qpxmn9v0jrylgbkzwssh5avzwhqil6-bash-minimal-5.0.16-doc /gnu/store/fvhj74pghapbjvsvj27skvkra1by1965-bash-minimal-5.0.16 substituting /gnu/store/m4qpxmn9v0jrylgbkzwssh5avzwhqil6-bash-minimal-5.0.16-doc... downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/m4qpxmn9v0jrylgbkzwssh5avzwhqil6-bash-minimal-5.0.16-doc ... bash-minimal-5.0.16-doc 290KiB 444KiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% /gnu/store/vk4r0x7baig8jnmsqrgrqpyq8qxr4gm3-bash-5.0.16-doc /gnu/store/v1xc4405s7xilmwhhkdj8z55wa2wlr8y-bash-5.0.16-include /gnu/store/87kif0bpf0anwbsaw0jvg8fyciw4sz67-bash-5.0.16 /gnu/store/m4qpxmn9v0jrylgbkzwssh5avzwhqil6-bash-minimal-5.0.16-doc /gnu/store/fvhj74pghapbjvsvj27skvkra1by1965-bash-minimal-5.0.16 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Note that the manual is not updated since, since I do not know how to extend the relevant section. Note also that "tests/guix-graph.sh" does not test any of the backends. All the best, simon zimoun (1): guix: graph: Add 'plain' backend. guix/graph.scm | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) base-commit: 8d557d4167ea98dfbc200fd20f64b8da36da35a2 -- 2.28.0