Dear, On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 04:22, Meiyo Peng <me...@riseup.net> wrote: > > zimoun writes: > > > When searching packages with `guix search`, it appears to me slow; > > especially compared to `aptitude` of Debian. > > ... > > What should be done to improve the search speed? > > I remember "guix package --search" has always been pretty fast since > this patch series of Ludovic is merged into guix: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2019-01/msg00254.html. > > Before that, "guix package --search" is slow.
Thank you for the pointer. Always interesting. :-) And you mean: was slower. ;-) > > Please check your guix's version. If you are not using an old Guix. I > am not sure why your experience is different from us. Hum? I am doing on regular basis `guix pull`. This updates the version, right? I mean, `guix describe` tells: guix describe Generation 22 May 13 2019 18:46:26 (current) bimsb d1cba4a repository URL: file:///home/simon/work/guix/bimsb branch: master commit: d1cba4a2cba1eb6c6c33328fea511b75dfcffe39 guix ccabb66 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: ccabb664ed55d44767e037bb73169be2ecf9449d Hum? maybe I am missing something. All the best, simon