Re: Inverted index to accelerate guix package search

[Pierre Neidhardt]

zimoun <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 16:27, Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > By the way, what about using Xapian in Guix?
>
> Xapian could be really cool!
> However, the size of this dependency should be evaluated; then
> optional feature or not.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix size guix
...
total: 390.5 MiB

$ guix size guix xapian
...
total: 414.0 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Some 24 MiB.  Actually Xapien comes with about 6 MiB of doc, so we could
move that out to a separate output.

Conclusion: Xapian is very light.
The only input that Xapian drags that's not in Guix is util-linux.

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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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