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Re: please test the new package searching



On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 02:40:31PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> It adds the ability to restrict the search on package names only
> (done using META keywords) and to use substrings, e.g. libgtk* .
> This last item is what people have been screaming for. Hopefully
> swish++ will implement more general regex in the future.

You should add a note, because one can't add the asterisk at
in front of 'sth', he should try 'libsth', since it is the most
common case.

Also, the search results are not arranged in groups, but all results
are on one page. That is good and bad.

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