Re: guix package is slow

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Maxim Cournoyer (2018-07-02 10:55 -0400) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>> - Perform transactions (install/remove) over multiple packages.
>>>>
>>>> To be fair, I think you can already accomplish this using emacs-guix by
>>>> separating with commas multiple package names :).
>>>
>>> Can you explain?  I don't know how to do that.
>>>
>>> The point of the Helm interface is that it allows to "batch select"
>>> multiple packages.  I don't think that emacs-guix can do that.
>>
>> […]
>>
>> Another way in ‘M-x guix-all-packages’ or any ‘guix-search-by-*’:
>>
>>   • Hit ‘i’ on not installed packages.
>>   • Hit ‘d’ on installed package.
>>   • Hit ‘x’ to apply.
>
> Thanks Oleg! I keep forgetting about this interface;

he-he, it is only one of about 10 different interfaces of this kind (for
packages, profiles, generations, services, etc.).  If you use only "M-x
guix", you miss most of Emacs-Guix features.

> there doesn't seem
> to be an entry point from M-x guix for easy discovery.

"M-x guix" can't be an entry point for this or any other interface, it
is only for "guix" *shell* commands.  Actually I'm very surprised
someone uses "M-x guix", I find it unpractical.  I even plan to rename
it to "M-x guix-command", and to make "M-x guix" a real entry point for
the various Emacs-Guix commands (including "guix-command" and all the
interfaces).

-- 
Alex