Re: File search

[zimoun]

Hi Antoine,

Cool!  I have not really look yet.  Just a minor answer to one of your
question. :-)

On Fri, 09 Dec 2022 at 11:05, "Antoine R. Dumont (@ardumont)" 
<ardumont@softwareheritage.org> wrote:
>> It should instead show “git@2.38.1:send-email”.  We probably need an
>> ‘output’ field in the ‘Packages’ table.
>
> Why must that be "git@2.38.1:send-email", what does it mean?

It is about outputs [1].  Some packages have more than one output.  For
instance,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix show git | recsel -p outputs
outputs: 
+ send-email: [description missing]
+ svn: [description missing]
+ credential-netrc: [description missing]
+ credential-libsecret: [description missing]
+ subtree: [description missing]
+ gui: [description missing]
+ out: everything else
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It means that “git:send-email” provides “git send-email” for not
necessary Git itself.

1: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Packages-with-Multiple-Outputs

Cheers,
simon