[Nix-dev] development/libraries too large

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:33:12 +0400, "Yury G.  Kudryashov" <urkud.urkud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

+1

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