Re: Packaging system improvements
Brian White wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that the proposed "Keywords:" field is supposed to
> > help organize the distribition, but the "Section:" field is already
> > doing this. The current sections divide the distribution by category
> > already, without the need for any new field.
>
> "Section:" only organizes is one category. This is not sufficient.
> Providing a keyword list will allow people to better chose what they
> want to see in the package selection list. The current package list
> is already too big to handle with just sections and it's going to
> get worse.
>
> Brian
> ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less travelled by,
> And that has made all the difference. ("The Road Not Taken" -- Robert Frost)
>
The main problem I face when looking for a package is that dselect can't
go to a section or search full text. Lets say I search for a fractal
program? How could I find it? I would have to ungzip Packages.gz and
then load it to emacs to do that, which is work one could save.
May the source be with you.
Mrvn
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