[bug#43477] [PATCH 0/1] guix: graph: Add 'plain' backend.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> 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---

Is that still a graph, though…?

It reminds me of “guix gc -R /gnu/store/…-something”, except that in
your case the output is for things that haven’t necessarily been
realized as store items yet.

-- 
Ricardo