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<civodul>stumbled upon this job offer: https://calcul.math.cnrs.fr/job_1852e6a6db25b8b86106f678d94abbc4.html

<efraim>the green background they use wrecks havoc on my eyes when I scroll

<civodul>it must be part of the recruitment strategy

<zimoun>civodul, I have read your email about man-db (yeah, hard to tackle habbits ;-)). I have not tried the code. If the indexing is faster and the addition of Xapian as a dependency is not an issue. It seems a good idea.

<civodul>zimoun: heh, cool! :-)

<civodul>i don't think indexing will be faster

<civodul>the goal would be to have a separate tool for searching documentation

<civodul>and that tool would update databases/indexes lazily

<civodul>on the Guix side, we'd just remove the mandb hook and profit :-)

<zimoun>that’s cool! It is something I recently brainstormed (privately) to Emacs folks answering to one of many hot threads. Include to Emacs a local “search engine” for Info.

<civodul>zimoun: ah yes

<civodul>i found the Helm thing for Info in Emacs was quite good

<civodul>but anyway, i think we need to have a tool that's better than search engines

<rekado>guile-xapian has an undiagnosed segfault that is triggered by goggles

<civodul>bah

<civodul>it's unfortunate that it uses SWIG

<civodul>not that avoiding it would fix all problems, but still

<zimoun>rekado: is it reported somewhere?

<rekado>zimoun: I reported it to Arun, but I have no diagnostics that would help fixing it.

<zimoun>rekado: ah )-:

<civodul>uh, is Parmetis non-free? https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47613

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