[bug#54454] [PATCH v2] ui: Describe package outputs.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

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

> On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 at 19:14, Liliana Marie Prikler 
> <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> $ guix show git |head -10
>>> name: git
>>> version: 2.37.2
>>> outputs:
>>> + send-email: see Appendix H
>>> + svn: see Appendix H
>>> + credential-netrc: see Appendix H
>>> + credential-libsecret: see Appendix H
>>> + subtree: see Appendix H
>>> + gui: see Appendix H
>>> + out: everything else
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>> 
>>> Where can I see Appendix H though?  (Real question.)
>>
>> There is no appendix H, it's an obscure reference to the appendix H of
>> the x86 instruction set (containing undocumented instructions or here
>> undocumented outputs 🙂️).

Oooh, I see.  :-)

> +      (assoc-ref `(("bin" . ,(G_ "executable programs and scripts"))
> +                   ("debug" . ,(G_ "debug information"))
> +                   ("lib" . ,(G_ "shared libraries"))
> +                   ("static" . ,(G_ "static libraries"))
> +                   ("out" . ,(G_ "everything else")))
> +                 output)
> +      (G_ "see Appendix H"))))
>
> Maybe we could just replace this “see Appendix H” by “undocumented”.

+1!  For those like me who’d otherwise take it at face value.

Thanks,
Ludo’.