Subject: Re: bug#40549: More usability issues:

From: Tom Zander <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 08:22:16 +0200

It looks like I was wrong on the ls example,

more importantly, it seems we all agree that short options with optional 
arguments are messy, at best.

I think the best course of action is to take a look at the guix command line 
design and find a way to move away from depending on them. Maybe some iterative 
change its approach.