From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Package page Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:03:04 +0000 Message-ID: <87r36inxk7.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c58gP-0001VG-N2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:03:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c58gM-00038T-Io for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:03:41 -0500 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:54651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c58gM-00037O-CF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:03:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Adam Pribyl's message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:41:56 +0100 (CET)") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Adam Pribyl Cc: Guix-devel Adam Pribyl writes: > The GuixSD package page > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/ > > is getting somewhat large to load. It is also bit short sighted to > list all packages on one html page. Any plans what to with this? > > Adam Pribyl > > Yes, it's not ideal. We had some discussions about this in the past, but I think the preference is to deploy an improved listing instead of no listing at all. I don't remember what the current status of the alternative search is,someone else can fill this in. Personally I'm in favor of erasing the /packages page (until we have an improved alternative), no one likes pages which kill your browser process - which happens with some current browsers when you visit our packages page. Better have no listing than to have a listing which leaves a bad impressions by loading long and eventually make your browser crash.