From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: guix package is slow Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 23:39:12 +0300 Message-ID: <87d0w5gyof.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8a4e9b4cb730094a84ef3ff29233c6dd@riseup.net> <87vaa0gutr.fsf@gmail.com> <87tvpjug0a.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2km4wpd.fsf@gmail.com> <87h8livjhy.fsf@gmail.com> <87muva4ube.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42205) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fa5bS-0000aN-Eq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:39:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fa5bP-0005Fr-5r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:39:18 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::22e]:38913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fa5bO-0005Eo-UK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:39:15 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id a134-v6so2389462lfe.6 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:39:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87muva4ube.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Sun, 01 Jul 2018 21:41:57 +0200") 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel , Maxim Cournoyer Pierre Neidhardt (2018-07-01 21:41 +0200) wrote: > Maxim Cournoyer writes: > >>> - Perform transactions (install/remove) over multiple packages. >> >> To be fair, I think you can already accomplish this using emacs-guix by >> separating with commas multiple package names :). > > Can you explain? I don't know how to do that. > > The point of the Helm interface is that it allows to "batch select" > multiple packages. I don't think that emacs-guix can do that. > > For instance, if I want to install all Emacs packages except, say, > emacs-guix (haha! :p) then I would > > - M-x helm-system-packages > - "emacs" > - M-a > - "emacs-guix" > - C-space > - As Oleg wrote, in Emacs-Guix you can use an interface for packages: "M-x guix-search-by-name emacs", then mark whatever you want to install with "i" and press "x" to run the operation. -- Alex