Re: Possible error in the manual?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nate Bargmann <address@hidden> skribis:

> Reading through the Guix manual I am in section "3.2 Invoking guix
> package" and tried the --show=package option.  I receive the following
> error from Guix:
>
>       $ guix package --show=emacs
>       guix package error: show=emacs: unrecognized option
>
> Running 'guix package --help' indeed shows no option named '--show'.
> Running 'guix --version' returns "guix (GNU Guix) 0.7" ...

Could it be that this is actually a pre-0.7 installation?  Or perhaps
~/.config/guix/latest points to a pre-0.7 version?  This option appeared
in 0.7.

> Does the online Guix manual reflect unreleased features found only in
> the repository?  Or is this a superseded option and the manual is
> lagging a bit?

The on-line manual corresponds to the latest release, currently 0.7.

HTH,
Ludo’.