Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>
>> - Or do you think SQLite patterns (using "%") would do for now?  As
>>   Mathieu pointed out, it's an unfortunate inconsistency with the rest of
>>   Guix.  But maybe regexp support can be added in a second stage.
>
> These patterns could be generated from user input that looks more like
> what we already use elsewhere.  We don’t have to directly pass the
> SQLite interface to users.

True, an obvious fix to the problem of syntax familiarity would be to
replace "*" by "%" in the user query, to have it look like shell globing.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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