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"jgart" skribis: > What do you think of this proposal: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60630 Just replied. :-) > Here's a user story: > > WhereIsEveryone is developing a webring as an API for discovering Guix ch= annels and their contents. > > 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 g= et a description about a package. > > WDYT I think that would be useful to package registries. For example, we set up but had to provide all the metadata locally. Not ideal! Ludo=E2=80=99.