ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> With Benno being OK, we should start looking at implementing the change.
> The various parts that I can think of are:
>
>   • Having a ‘package-description-string’ procedure that would return
>     the description rendered as a string, using the (stexi) modules.
>
>   • ‘--search’ could use the raw description (including markup).
>     However, ‘package->recutils’ must use ‘package-description-string’
>     or similar.

Here is a first attempt.  It doesn't feel right to me but fornow I don't
know what to do without duplicating code or reorganizing the world.  The
problem is that translations are handle in (guix ui) so we need to
regenerate texi->plain-text.