Subject: Re: bug#33673: "guix system --help" does not detail how to use --on-error=strategy

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:10:06 +0100

Hi!

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> Improvements are always welcome of course.  The main criterion would be
>> to remain consistent with the rest of Guix and with GNU conventions that
>> we follow.  Maybe it’s best to discuss what you have in mind first?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Ludo’.
>> 
>
> I'd go with (one of: nothing-special, backtrace, debug)
> with the assumption that for more information the manual is more
> verbose.

Sounds good to me.  Would you like to send a patch?

> I also just noticed that we have 'man guix-system', which could be more
> verbose on the subject without needing to fit in a concise output.

Manual pages are generated from the ‘--help’ output, the canonical
documentation being the Info manual.

Thanks,
Ludo’.