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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: `guix search` feature or bug?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:31:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y30w73h2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ0yuJFXDzWAGhUyzmmJ8r7gETAi+Xf3zMRJtQcWBPrr7w@mail.gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:40:29 +0200")

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> An example describes better than words. :-)
>
>   guix package --show=tuxpaint
>
> And one can read the terms `software` in the synopsis and `tools` in
> the description.
> However, `guix search software tools` does not output the package `tuxpaint`.
>
>   guix search software tools | recsel -C -P name | sort
>
> From the function `relevance` in `guix/ui.scm`, if I understand well,
> it seems expected. Each field deals with the regexp and the terms
> `software` and `tools` does not appear both in only one field.
>
> Is this behaviour expected?

Not really!  It’s the result of commit
8874faaaac665100a095ef25e39c9a389f5a397f, but I agree that what you
expected would be nicer.  We should fix it.

Do you want to give it a try?  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-17 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-17 13:40 `guix search` feature or bug? zimoun
2019-07-17 21:31 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-07-18 14:59   ` zimoun
2019-07-22 17:20   ` zimoun

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