[bug#54454] [PATCH v2] ui: Describe package outputs.

[zimoun]

Hi,

Thanks for this nice improvement.

On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 at 19:14, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> 
wrote:

>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ guix show git |head -10
>> name: git
>> version: 2.37.2
>> outputs:
>> + send-email: see Appendix H
>> + svn: see Appendix H
>> + credential-netrc: see Appendix H
>> + credential-libsecret: see Appendix H
>> + subtree: see Appendix H
>> + gui: see Appendix H
>> + out: everything else
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> Where can I see Appendix H though?  (Real question.)
>
> There is no appendix H, it's an obscure reference to the appendix H of
> the x86 instruction set (containing undocumented instructions or here
> undocumented outputs 🙂️).

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
+      (assoc-ref `(("bin" . ,(G_ "executable programs and scripts"))
+                   ("debug" . ,(G_ "debug information"))
+                   ("lib" . ,(G_ "shared libraries"))
+                   ("static" . ,(G_ "static libraries"))
+                   ("out" . ,(G_ "everything else")))
+                 output)
+      (G_ "see Appendix H"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Maybe we could just replace this “see Appendix H” by “undocumented”.

Or if we want to keep the reference, “see the non-existing Appendix H”.


Cheers,
simon