Subject: Re: bug#24361: guix graph backtrace on graphviz help message
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 22:05:23 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> efraim@macbook42:~$ time guix graph -t bag pbzip2 | dot -tpdf > pbzip2.pdf

[...]

> guix graph: error: scm_flush: Broken pipe

Hi Efraim!  It’s a feature, not a bug: ‘guix graph’ wasn’t able to write
everything to standard output, so it errors out.

There are other cases where it’s best to silently ignore that (‘guix
package -A’ does that for instance), but this is not one of them IMO.

Ludo’.