Dear, When searching packages with `guix search`, it appears to me slow; especially compared to `aptitude` of Debian.
Say on my machine: $ time guix package --search=python-numpy | recsel -p name - name: python-numpy name: python-numpy-documentation name: python-numpydoc name: python2-numpy-documentation real 0m11.864s user 0m1.160s sys 0m0.212s $ time aptitude search python-numpy i A python-numpy - Numerical Python adds a fast array facilit v python-numpy-abi9 - v python-numpy-api10 - p python-numpy-dbg - Fast array facility to the Python language v python-numpy-dev - p python-numpy-doc - NumPy documentation p python-numpydoc - Sphinx extension to support docstrings in real 0m3.219s user 0m0.656s sys 0m0.088s I am not sure to exactly understand how the search works. Basically, a "big" `fold' is done on `%package-module-path' and there is no caching. Right? What should be done to improve the search speed? All the best, simon
