From: Soren Stoutner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lookup which file can be found in which package
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 14:04:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1788071.raZ04qs8gD@soren-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pm6ce732.fsf@rdklein.fr>
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Edouard,
On Saturday, June 3, 2023 11:13:25 AM MST you wrote:
> Of course most packages are nicely coded, and grep usually find the
> answer. Nevertheless, the only way to solve this for all packages would
> be to install all packages and grep the store... i.e. run all programs
> to completion and look at the output.
Debian solves this problem by doing exactly that, and then making the output searchable
as a web service:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages[1]
In my opinion, this would be a really nice addition to https://packages.guix.gnu.org/[2].
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Soren Stoutner
soren@stoutner.com
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[1] https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
[2] https://packages.guix.gnu.org/
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-03 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-02 17:36 lookup which file can be found in which package W. T. Meyer
2023-06-02 21:45 ` W. T. Meyer
2023-06-02 22:27 ` Soren Stoutner via
2023-06-03 18:13 ` Edouard Klein
2023-06-03 21:04 ` Soren Stoutner via [this message]
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