Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> Not quite. As Ludo mentioned, you can trivially extract out the file
> list from nar files already (like guix archive -t). So this new service
> I'm thinking about which stores the nar files, would be able to read the
> list of files from the nar.

To clarify, you mean the hypothetical new service for file indexing?
Or did you mean for the Guix Data Service?

>> Please correct me if I got it all wrong! :D
>
> All great questions, hopefully I've managed to clear things up!

You did, thanks!

Another practical question: what would be the preferred format for the
database?

SQLite?  Custom binary?  Plain text?

Any pointer to how Nix does it?

Where would we store this database?  In /var?

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Pierre Neidhardt
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