[Nix-dev] "Package archeology" in nixpkgs

[Roger Qiu]

I think the name and the attribute name could be named with better 
names, to prevent confusion. Perhaps a "label" and "path"/"fully 
qualified path". The name is just really used for fuzzy search which I 
believe is there for convenience for the operator. Like the difference 
between a search engine term, and the actual domain name. If the number 
of packages (and package versions) keeps growing, full indexing will be 
needed to maintain performance in fuzzy operations.

On 2/09/2014 6:47 AM, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Don't forget the nix-env -u case which updates based on name (in fact, 
> that kinda sucks for sub-attributes like python packages, there are 
> lots of attributes mapping to the same names).
>
> Wout.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Florent Becker 
> <florent.becker at ens-lyon.org <mailto:florent.becker at ens-lyon.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 01/09/2014 11:22, Vladimír C(unát wrote:
>      > I suggest we distribute the database with the channel, similarly
>      > to the command-not-found database.
>
>     Can't command-not-found suggest using nix-env -iA rather than nix-env
>     -i? That would be one indirection less for that use case, and
>     teach new
>     users about nix-env -iA.
>
>     --
>     Florent
>
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