[Nix-dev] Haskell: indexing all packages on Hackage with Hoogle

John Wiegley johnw at newartisans.com
Sun Feb 8 22:19:58 CET 2015


>>>>> Nikita Karetnikov <nikita at karetnikov.org> writes:

> Has anyone tried that?  Most of the guides suggest you to run the following
> command, which should download the necessary databases, but it fails for me.

Just for what it's worth, I have in the past indexed everything, but it causes
far too much noise in the search output.  This is why the hoogle-local
expression takes the approach of asking for a list of 'packages' to indicate
what should be indexed.

John


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