Paul Wise transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Hi all, > > It used to be possible to link to individual Guix packages like this: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/m.html#myrepos > > Since the recent change to the packages website the packages pages are > paginated and have no anchors, which means they will break as more > packages are added and also I cannot link directly to a package, > only to a location that contains lots of other packages too. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/M/page/3/ > > Fixing this would be useful for the Repology support of GNU Guix, > which currently cannot link to GNU Guix packages: > > https://repology.org/repository/gnuguix > https://repology.org/metapackage/myrepos/versions > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/
It is not just repology, but easy linking to details for external parties/downstreams we need to point to somewhere. I think there were some remaining ideas for the new websites, where a package gets detail page on its own. The pages are statically generated, the old "useful" page format was taking a very long time to load, with each release and increase of package count we got k more seconds. Nothing I'd like to go back to.
