Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I would lean towards keeping it separate, so that it’s an optional
>> feature (given that it relies on downloading an external database).
>
> I was leaning towards downloading the database with "guix pull", so that
> the "filesearch" subcommand would not download anything.

Like substitutes, it should be an optional feature IMO, which means we
need to keep clear boundaries.

There’s also the question of whether we should have a system-wide
database so that each user doesn’t have to download it, especially if
it’s relatively big.

Apologies for throwing more questions than answers into the mix.  :-)

Ludo’.