Hi,

On Mon, 09 Oct 2023 at 14:25, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

> I think it would be less surprising if these ‘single, mutually exclusive 
> actions’ should always be (sub)subcommands, e.g., ‘guix archive import’, 
> ‘guix archive authorize’, …

I am proposing to error for ambiguous cases as,

    $ ./pre-inst-env guix archive --import --authorize hello < /tmp/hello.nar
    guix archive: error: ambiguous options: "authorize" with "import"

See attached patch.  WDYT?

Please note that it errors when at least 2 options are ambiguous.  So if
there is 3, you get the “two first ones“.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix archive --import --export --authorize hello < /tmp/hello.nar
guix archive: error: ambiguous options: "export" with "import"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Well, if the idea is fine, then maybe it could be worth to add one or
two sentences in the manual.

Cheers,
simon