[Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

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.
-- 
Yury G. Kudryashov,
mailto: urkud at mccme.ru