Bug#144046: general: Sections are not finely grained
> But when using keywords, each keyword you select brings you closer to
> the goal. You could think of keywords like of a tree system, where each
> package can be at as many branches as many keywords it has.
>
> I hope you know what I mean.
Ok. Got it.
>
> > If you want to have a keyword-based system I would suggest you
> > take a look at dpkg-iasearch (yes, not documented, but it's a proof of
> > concept) which uses natural language retrieval techniques (TFIDF
> > vectorisation of documents) to allow for more powerful searchs than
> > "apt-cache search XXX".
>
> I'll have a look at it. But I think that such tools would be most useful
> if each package would have a "Keywords:" field.
dpkg-iasearch (TFIDF for that matter) does much more that "keyword
search" it looks for "similar" documents (similar in an n-dimensional
vector space that includes all words). Thus, it basically replaces the
need for keywords since they already are in the description (hopefully
packages should have good descriptions, this is not always true).
This kind of tools, BTW is also translations-aware since it does
not have any kind of language dependancies (should work for english,
russian, spanish...)
Javi
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