nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space to nixos@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoWhat do you dislike about Nix/NixOS?message-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you dislike about Nix/NixOS?nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space to nixos@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareck_linkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months ago https://search.nixos.org/packages exists and it’s generally pretty damn good It’s actually not. If you search for go you get the go package, but if you search for go 1.21, no go package will even appear on the first page. The package you are looking for is somewhere on page 7 or 8.
minus-squareAtemu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIndeed, that looks like a bug. The version field is there but it doesn’t appear to be searched. Could you open an issue on https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search?
It’s actually not. If you search for
goyou get the go package, but if you search forgo 1.21, no go package will even appear on the first page. The package you are looking for is somewhere on page 7 or 8.Indeed, that looks like a bug. The version field is there but it doesn’t appear to be searched.
Could you open an issue on https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search?