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authorAntero Mejr <antero@mailbox.org>2022-07-12 22:50:07 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-07-19 18:54:42 +0200
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home: Add -I, --list-installed option.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (list-installed): New procedure. * guix/scripts/home.scm (%options, show-help): Add '--list-installed'. (process-command): For 'describe' and 'list-generations', honor the 'list-installed option. (display-home-environment-generation): Add #:list-installed-regex and honor it. (list-generations): Likewise. * guix/scripts/utils.scm (pretty-print-table): New argument "left-pad". * doc/guix.texi (Invoking Guix Home): Add information and example for --list-installed flag. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -40495,6 +40495,17 @@ install anything.
Describe the current home generation: its file name, as well as
provenance information when available.
+To show installed packages in the current home generation's profile, the
+@code{--list-installed} flag is provided, with the same syntax that is
+used in @command{guix package --list-installed} (@pxref{Invoking guix
+package}). For instance, the following command shows a table of all the
+packages with ``emacs'' in their name that are installed in the current
+home generation's profile:
+
+@example
+guix home describe --list-installed=emacs
+@end example
+
@item list-generations
List a summary of each generation of the home environment available on
disk, in a human-readable way. This is similar to the
@@ -40507,9 +40518,14 @@ generations displayed. For instance, the following command displays
generations that are up to 10 days old:
@example
-$ guix home list-generations 10d
+guix home list-generations 10d
@end example
+The @code{--list-installed} flag may also be specified, with the same
+syntax that is used in @command{guix home describe}. This may be
+helpful if trying to determine when a package was added to the home
+profile.
+
@item import
Generate a @dfn{home environment} from the packages in the default
profile and configuration files found in the user's home directory. The