El 2019-02-08 11:04, zimoun escribió: > Hi Meikel, > > To complement the words by Pierre, I would tell that Web Browser and > Emails Client are maybe not the best entry point to discover the Guix > system. :-) > > Well, to search on all the packages, the way is: > guix package -s web -s browser \ > | recsel -e 'description ~ "[Bb]rowser"' -p name,synopsis,relevance > > The part `-s web -s browser' means: search the word web *or* the word > browser in all the fields (name, synopsis, description, etc.). > The recsel command allows to filter out. > - `-e 'description ~ "[Bb]rowser"' means: select the package owning > the word Browser or browser in the field description; > - `-p name,synopsis,relevance' means: only outputs the fields name, > synopsis and relevance. > > Then, for example try `guix package --show=icecat' to see all the > package information. > > To install the recsel comand, you need to install the package > recutils. Then give a look at the manual: > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-package
What a fine explanation! I filled in some of my own knowledge gaps with it. It would be great to include something like that on the manual. > If you are an Emacs user, then I recommand you to give a look at the > package emacs-guix. I looked at this part. But I am missing some exercise such as the previous one on Emacs-Guix. It would help introduce myself on some practical use of that promising package. Would someone provide such thing please?
