On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:33:12 +0400, "Yury G. Kudryashov" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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