Re: Newbie user question: What do the columns shown by "guix package -I" mean?

[Rodrigo Morales]

Thanks! That's what I was looking for.

A related question: I didn't understand the part "retain backwards
compatibility with isatty/stderr/etc." and I'm curious about that. I
suppose that you mean that "guix package -I" doesn't show the column names
to maintain backward compatibility with isatty, stderr, etc., but it's not
clear to me what problem would arise if column names were shown.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 3:03 PM Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:

> Hi Rodrigo,
>
> Rodrigo Morales 写道：
> > Inexperienced GUIX user here. I have a question. What's the
> > formal names
> > for the information presented in the columns shown by `guix
> > package -I'?
> > (see example of output below)
>
> I answered this question on IRC as well, so I'll just be lazy &
> paste my answer here:
>
>   <nckx>rdrg109_: That's a good question! The columns are
>   documented in the manual (‘info guix’, ‘Invoking guix package’ —
>   or
>   <
> https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-package>)
>
>   under ‘--list-installed’. But it's not documented by the command
>   itself. Doing so now is probably not a good idea, even if we try
>   to be clever and retain backwards compatibility with
>   isatty/stderr/etc.
>   — https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2023-02-26.log#205255
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
>