<to...@tuxteam.de> writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> >> Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com> writes: >> >> > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to >> > transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >> > translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html >> > file with the "find" tool. Wouldn't that be something different? >> >> Or imagine installing a packages from remote servers with shell globbing: >> >> pkg --install /http://ftp.gnu.org/packages/*/*.deb >> >> Last time I used the Hurd, some variant of this actually worked. > > Like this (note: my comments interspersed, prefixed with ###) > > ### note the option '-s' -- I don't want to clobber my box! > > tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-get -s install '*php*' >
I didn't know that debian support installing all "php" packages like that! > What's my point? > > - Debian has some headstart: it's absolutely worth learning > from them What things can guix do like debian does? > - Perhaps other distros also know how to play this trick > - Selecting packages by name via some string matching may have > ummm... strange consequences ;-D > > Don't get me wrong: I do think Guix goes into the absolutely right > direction, as opposed to the current cloudy container craze. > > Cheers > -- tomás
