Re: distinguishing between applications and libraries

[Robert Vollmert]

> On 1. Jul 2019, at 23:48, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>> - `guix search` would ignore library packages by default
> 
> I think it’s valid for users to want to install libraries.  For Python,
> for example, installing modules that don’t provide any executables
> appears to be the norm.

The idea would be that

`guix search <topic>`

would find applications related to topic, while e.g.

`guix search [-l|--include-libraries] <topic>`

would include library packages. So installing libraries would still
be possible.

(It needn’t be a “application vs library” distinction either, it could
be “graphical vs command line” or “user vs development” or whatever.)

Robert