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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-08-07 11:53:32 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-08-08 11:22:31 +0200
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lint: Add '-e'.
* guix/scripts/lint.scm (show-help, %options): Add '-e'.
(guix-lint): Call 'specification->package' while traversing OPTS.  Add
case for 'expression pair.  Adjust 'for-each' loop to expect packages.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix lint): Document it.
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@@ -14359,6 +14359,16 @@ names returned by @option{--list-checkers}.
 Only disable the checkers specified in a comma-separated list using the
 names returned by @option{--list-checkers}.
 
+@item --expression=@var{expr}
+@itemx -e @var{expr}
+Consider the package @var{expr} evaluates to.
+
+This is useful to unambiguously designate packages, as in this example:
+
+@example
+guix lint -c archival -e '(@@ (gnu packages guile) guile-3.0)'
+@end example
+
 @item --no-network
 @itemx -n
 Only enable the checkers that do not depend on Internet access.