From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Apr 20 17:54:41 2021 Received: (at 47911) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Apr 2021 21:54:41 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56253 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lYyKP-0005yK-GV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:54:41 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41038) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lYyKN-0005y7-FT for 47911@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:54:39 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43572) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lYyKG-0002Bw-Ok; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:54:33 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=52254 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lYyKG-0001iU-9j; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:54:32 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: bug#47911: Package outputs should be described in the UI References: X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 =?utf-8?Q?Flor=C3=A9al?= an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 23:54:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:38:31 -0400") Message-ID: <87h7k08vvu.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 47911 Cc: 47911@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.7 (-) Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > At least once a month I have to help somebody on IRC who didn't notice > that our Git package is split into multiple outputs. > > They can't find `git send-email`, and the Guix package UI doesn't make > this clear enough. Just a side note: our =E2=80=98git=E2=80=99 package uses outputs in a rathe= r unusual way. There are other packages that provide different features in different outputs, but the majority of multiple-output packages have the =E2=80=9Cstandard=E2=80=9D outputs: =E2=80=9Cdoc=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9Cbin=E2= =80=9D, =E2=80=9Clib=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9Cdebug=E2=80=9D. So maybe we could look at the =E2=80=98git=E2=80=99 package (can it be spli= t into several packages? would that help?) in addition to the UI, and also make sure the UI is optimized for the most frequent cases. Ludo=E2=80=99.