[Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:20:06AM +0400, Yury G.  Kudryashov wrote:
> Clark Gaebel wrote:
> 
> > ls -h | grep 'package'
> > 
> > What's wrong with that?
> 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.