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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-09-02 15:23:52 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-09-02 23:40:07 +0200
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graph: Add '--expression'.
* guix/scripts/graph.scm (%options, show-help): Add '--expression'. (guix-graph): Call 'read/eval-package-expression' for 'expression' pairs in OPTS. * tests/guix-graph.sh: Add tests. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix graph): Document it.
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@@ -4417,6 +4417,16 @@ the values listed above.
@item --list-types
List the supported graph types.
+
+@item --expression=@var{expr}
+@itemx -e @var{expr}
+Consider the package @var{expr} evaluates to.
+
+This is useful to precisely refer to a package, as in this example:
+
+@example
+guix graph -e '(@@@@ (gnu packages commencement) gnu-make-final)'
+@end example
@end table