Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:20:06AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: >> Nothing wrong if you want to find a package and you know the name of this >> package. In this case we can put all packages (not only libraries) into >> one directory. >> >> But `ls applications/science/math` yields the list of (most? all?) >> applications in nixpkgs that can help me when in math research. > > In fact, I can't say I always know in what path I'll find a program, > specially under tools, applications, science, utils, misc, ... > 'development/libraries' is the easiest one for me in nixpkgs. :) Out of > that, I run 'find' at the root of nixpkgs. Try to find qrencode library this way ;).
Probably we should drop the tree structure (reduce the number of categories?) and replace it by search tags + tools to query these tags. -- Yury G. Kudryashov, mailto: [email protected] _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
