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Re: command-not-found


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: command-not-found
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:03:54 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Seeing as guix is becoming more and more complete, it would be great to 
>> have 'command-not-found' [1] or similar available, so that typing in the 
>> name of an uninstalled binary begets a suggestion on which package(s) to 
>> install, like Ubuntu gives:
>>
>> $ gitk
>> The program 'gitk' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
>> sudo apt-get install gitk
>
> For the record: I never liked this feature (and the delay it caused) and
> I’m not too keen on having something like this for Guix.

+1

>> The database for this I imagine could be generated by hydra, no?
>
> It wouldn’t be good to rely on Hydra.  We are trying to encourage
> alternative distribution models (via “guix publish” and eventually via
> GNUnet), and it would be a step in the opposite direction (in my
> opinion) to rely more on Hydra.

OTOH, for those who want it, ‘guix publish’ could provide such a file
lookup service.  It would probably need to build its own database
though.

> If the package expressions themselves contained information about the
> contents of their “bin/” directories then it wouldn’t *have* to be
> generated by Hydra.

Too ugly!  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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