Re: A package search engine for a curated list of channels

[Edouard Klein]

That's a great idea :)

I can lend a VPS with guix installed on it for testing and initial
deployment, if you need it.

I can't promise to help with development because of time constraints,
but I'll follow this with eagerness.

Unless I'm mistaken (which I very well my be), pulling from a channel
basically gives the channel authors code execution privileges on the
pulling machine, so as you said in the subject line, hand curation would
be in order.

Cheers,

Edouard

Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> it would be nice to be able to search for a package (and/or a service)
> by name or description etc. through many channels. AFAIK, there's no
> such search engine yet. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I'm considering to implement it. I'd suggest to approach it with a
> server where (1) Guix is installed; (2) a long list of channels is
> activated; (3) a cron-job or so which regularly runs `guix pull`; (4) a
> web-api-service written in Guile which leverages the Guix-library in
> order to search for packages (-- I guess it'd be calling the
> `guix-package*` function from /guix/scripts/package.scm?); (5) a
> simplistic front-end web-site which talks to the web-api.
>
> I post this to help-guix instead of the devel-mailing-list because this
> is not about development on Guix itself.
>
> Kindly
> Mekeor