juju is missing a list-plugins command

[Richard Harding]

Per report from Marco:

I've started building plugins again, starting with `juju watch-status`[0]. I wanted to test the --description flag in Juju but `juju help plugins` and a myriad of other commands (I guessed) didn't work (juju list-plugins, juju plugins, etc).

Do we plan on having the ability to list plugins in 2.0?

And with my own notes:

I agree that list-plugins is the right idea here and that means that plugins becomes a noun in our language.

What's interesting is that add/remove fall out because that installing/uninstalling. I think that show-plugin might be interesting to auto run the --description flag to bring it into CLI alignment with the new world order.

[Richard Harding (rharding)]

Additional feedback for when we look to address this:

From roger:
I don't think that we should
arbitrarily run all executables that happen to have a "juju-" prefix.
It's potentially dangerous (for example, note that although git relies heavily
on plugins, it doesn't execute a plugin until you explicitly name it).

Perhaps there could be a standard way for a plugin to provide
metadata about itself as a data file.

[Richard Harding (rharding)]

This needs to be snap ready as well.

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

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