Re: guix package is slow

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> I've implemented a rather trivial cache in `helm-system-packages' (an
> Emacs package).
> the cache is created (or refreshed if it's older than the
> ~/.config/guix/current).
> Cache generation takes a few seconds, but from then on everything is
> instantaneous.
>
> It does not support searching within descriptions however.

Could you elaborate on how you create and then use such cache? Is it
useful when used inside Emacs only, say in a *shell* buffer?

If so, what does it bring over using emacs-guix, which caches in memory
the package definitions?

Thanks,

Maxim