Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:36:46AM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
>> > Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the
>> > current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but
>> > I would like a search function because one keeps clicking to find a
>> > certain package.
>>
>> So as Pierre points out, there is the Guix-HPC package search. The Guix
>> Data Service also contains a search function (e.g. [3]).
>>
>> 3: http://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages
>
> A typical user won't find that.

I think that's good. My view of the typical user of that page is someone
writing software, or after data about Guix packages. But maybe a search
interface for Guix packages can be built that's aimed at regular users
of Guix, but fetches data from the Guix Data Service.