Subject: Re: [bug#77833] Xapian cache/search proof of concept

From: Arun Isaac <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 21:46:05 +0100

Hi Noé,

> We take the profile at /var/guix/profiles/per-user/<user>/current-guix/
> and build an index for it. Yes. No. In
> ~/.cache/guix-xsearch/<profile-hash>.

Ok, sounds good.

> I would like to know what you mean by switching profile, is that guix
> pull generations or guix shell guix or something else?

I have additional guix profiles, for example ~/.guix-extra-profiles/foo
that I activate with `source ~/.guix-extra-profiles/foo/etc/profile'. I
sometimes also have this happen automatically using direnv.

Regards,
Arun