Re: guix package is slow

[Alex Kost]

Pierre Neidhardt (2018-07-01 21:41 +0200) wrote:

> Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> - Perform transactions (install/remove) over multiple packages.
>>
>> To be fair, I think you can already accomplish this using emacs-guix by
>> separating with commas multiple package names :).
>
> Can you explain?  I don't know how to do that.
>
> The point of the Helm interface is that it allows to "batch select"
> multiple packages.  I don't think that emacs-guix can do that.
>
> For instance, if I want to install all Emacs packages except, say,
> emacs-guix (haha! :p) then I would
>
> - M-x helm-system-packages
> - "emacs"
> - M-a
> - "emacs-guix"
> - C-space
> - <f2>

As Oleg wrote, in Emacs-Guix you can use an interface for packages: "M-x
guix-search-by-name emacs", then mark whatever you want to install with
"i" and press "x" to run the operation.

-- 
Alex