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guix package --search does not search output names

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Message #29 received at 35588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
Cc: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>,
 35588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35588: [PATCH] ui: Search matches additional package outputs.,
 bug#35588: [PATCH] ui: Search matches additional package outputs.
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 12:39:44 +0200

Hi!

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> In light of that, I've chosen to exclude all of the following outputs:
>
>   '("out" "doc" "debug" "lib" "static" "bin" "examples" "gui" "tests"
>     "utils" "include")
>
> I've also added a test to verify that package outputs are included in
> search results.

I would exclude only the standard output names used by (guix build
gnu-build-system), so:

  ("out" "doc" "debug" "lib" "include" "bin")

That way one can still do ‘guix search git gui’ or ‘guix search bind utils’.

> What do you all think of this latest version?

Thanks for the new test!  LGTM.

Ludo’.

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