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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35551: guix search
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 17:17:29 +0200
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To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
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Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> skribis:

>> Another option I thought of would be to display only the 10 results with
>> the highest relevance by default, when stdout is a terminal.
>
> That would be OK as a second step. But first, we should get the
> sort order (the notion of relevance) improved.

It=E2=80=99s tricky to map our intuition to actual metrics on the data that=
 we
have, though.

The current metrics used to compute the relevance score are here:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/ui.scm#n1406

Like I said, command names are not available in an off-line context.

Ludo=E2=80=99.