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Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis
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Pjotr Prins |
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Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis |
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Tue, 5 Nov 2019 05:48:49 -0600 |
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:36:46AM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> > Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the
> > current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but
> > I would like a search function because one keeps clicking to find a
> > certain package.
>
> So as Pierre points out, there is the Guix-HPC package search. The Guix
> Data Service also contains a search function (e.g. [3]).
>
> 3:
> http://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages
A typical user won't find that.
> If there's a need to keep the website as static content, maybe the
> JavaScript approach used by the Guix-HPC site could be used on the Guix
> Website. It should also be possible to use the Guix Data Service
> information for a search feature.
>
> Otherwise, maybe there could be a search box on the Guix Website, but it
> links to packages.guix.gnu.org, which is a package search service (which
> doesn't have to be part of the static website).
>
> > May also be an idea to provide links throught the guix CLI, such as
> >
> > https://guix.gnu.org/packages/alsa-lib-1.1.9/
>
> What were you thinking people might use this for?
Speaking for myself: I would use it to go to CI. We do have additional
information in that way. But yeah.
Pj.
Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/11/06
Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis, sirgazil, 2019/11/06