bug#35551: guix search

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Bruno Haible wrote:

Mark H Weaver wrote:

If we add functionality that calls out to the network in response to a package search, e.g. to query popularity ratings or package file listings, we should make sure the user knows it's happening, and provide a way to disable it. Some users may not want information about their

package searches to be leaked to the outside world.

Good point.


leaked to the outside world, not the search term.

Would it be more acceptable, upon 'guix search', to download an incremental update of a package popularity database, and do the search locally? This way, only the fact that the user has been doing a 'guix search' would be

Popularity is irrelevant to search relevance.

Kind regards,

T G-R

I don't think Mark intended to present it as a good idea at all… ;-)

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