Re: Reorganizing guix package commands

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> While we're thinking about user interfaces, I believe a more abstract approach
> would be  better at this stage:    What types of person are going to be 
> interacting with Guix?  Developers?  Users?  Curious Bystanders?  Some other 
> category of person?  --- Each of those are probably going to have a core set
> of commands which they use regualarly,  a few which they use occasionally and
> some never.  Identifying those sets (which may intersect) is the first step
> to designing a good user interface.  That would help for both CLI and GUI.

I and others tried to start each of the “Invoking” sections with a
sentence clarifying the intended audience of the command.

Probably we should try to reflect it more in the manual’s structure, so
it’s not clear to me exactly how.

Ludo’.