Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt 写道：
> I'm happy to let your know that my application to the NLNet 
> "Next
> Generation Internet -- Search & Discovery" grant for Guix has 
> been
> accepted!

Yay!  The second joyful announcement on guix-devel this week.

> 1. Parameterized packages
>    (Previous discussion: 
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-05/msg00285.html)
>
>    Gentoo’s package manager, Portage, exposes a “USE flags” 
>    feature which allows
>    users to customize packages in a way that composes 
>    (e.g. “disable the GUI
>    elements of all packages” for a headless server).  This 
>    essentially subdivides
>    packages into smaller “components.”  Since those components 
>    form the smallest
>    atoms a user could search for, this is a prerequisite for the 
>    rest of the
>    searchability improvements.

Very curious to see where this goes.  Do you have any other 
examples of distributions that attack this problem in (more) 
interesting ways than Gentoo?

The inevitable “oooh, you mean like USE flags” mental 
shortc(irc)ut that this subject inevitably triggers seems stifling 
to me… but it affects me as well and I don't have any better 
ideas.

Thank you, and good luck!

T G-R

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