Re: 01/01: scripts: refresh: Allow searching recursively.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

address@hidden skribis:

> Furthermore we could create words to describe packages with many/few
> dependencies:
>
> Package X is a heavy root with 120 upward links.
>
> We could define a scale and make our commands output it consistently:
>
> - light root <=50 upward links
> - medium root >50<=100 upward links
> - heavy root >100<=500 upward links
> - very heavy root >500<=1000 upward links
> - extremely heavy root >1000 upward links
>
> (The numbers above are just an example)

Yes, I’ve been wanting something like this, but IIRC the current (guix
graph) implementation turned out to be inefficient to compute
upward/downward rank for a large number of nodes.

Ludo’.