Subject: Re: bug#35551: guix search

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 15:43:17 +0000

Hello!

$ guix search video
shows: vidstab, youtube-viewer, ffmpegthumbnailer, xf86-video-mach64...
I'd better prefer this sorting:
vlc, mpv, gnome-mpv, blender, avidemux, kdenlive...

To do so need to sort by popularity, using f.e. fsf site statistics.
There is no other mathematics methods like 'if this package provides ssh command in path'.
The other way is to add own 'Relevance' field and to fill it manually or using some statistic reasons.

May 10, 2019 10:23 AM, "Bruno Haible" <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> Another option I thought of would be to display only the 10 results with
>> the highest relevance by default, when stdout is a terminal.
> 
> That would be OK as a second step. But first, we should get the
> sort order (the notion of relevance) improved.
> 
> Bruno