nice, thx. i appreciate that. i’ve been looking for a way to ease into contributing to nix anyway. probably as good as any.
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@rph You can also CC me for initial review too.
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What the hell happened to search recently? Queries are now often returning all sorts of irrelevant results that do not match search terms.
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I personally mostly grep through man configuration.nix and use nix search. Outside of those I regularly use search.nixos.org, both for searching NixOS options and for searching packages. I don’t use any 3rd party tools or databases (like nh search, but I’m aware of others too), because I don’t need to.
As for why I said I don’t use flakes search - I also have never felt the need for it. I either already know the flake I’ll be including, or I’ll be opening its source anyway. All of that is assuming I’ll opt for flakes when I’m starting a project, which is rarely the case nowadays.
I’ve always used the webpage to search for packages and services. I’m not sure why i never bothered with the cli tool tbh. With Guix it’s the other way around for me, i always search with guix search, it just seemed the most convenient way of doing it, plus their online search is still in early development and not as efficient to use.
As for the flake search, like others have voiced here i feel like whenever i tried searching for a flake it wouldn’t give results, even when i knew the given project had a flake. I usually just look at a given projects’ github page and see if they have a flake, but usually i only use a flake if they don’t have a package that’s already in Nix. If there’s a nix package i don’t bother cause i’m fine with whatever the stable channel offers.
Gross. If this change is not going to be reverted, it at least needs to be made optional, via toggle or something.
You’re in luck!
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