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Re: Should a Guix Channel Have a Description?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Should a Guix Channel Have a Description? |
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Mon, 09 Jan 2023 18:38:44 +0100 |
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Hi!
"jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> skribis:
> What do you think of this proposal:
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> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60630
Just replied. :-)
> Here's a user story:
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> WhereIsEveryone is developing a webring as an API for discovering Guix
> channels and their contents.
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> With a growing* channels.scm file, IWBN to have a description about each
> channel as part of the data about that channel in the same way that users get
> a description about a package.
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> WDYT
I think that would be useful to package registries. For example, we set
up <https://hpc.guix.info/channels/> but had to provide all the metadata
locally. Not ideal!
Ludo’.