Re: search for files in packages
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001, Olivier Ricou wrote:
> I spend a long part of my night to find the package with the
> file named gnome-config. I looked everywhere and especially
> in the http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages page, but
> only in the "Search Package Directories" since the next
> section "Search the Contents of the Latest Release" was
> irrelevant for me (I supposed so).
No, exactly this search would have been the thing you looked for.
Please take a look at the description:
| This search engine allows you to search the contents of Debian distributions
| for any files (or just parts of file names) that are part of packages.
It states quite clearly that it's for file-search. What part was
misleading to you? Maybe we could update the wording to make it more
clear.
> Search on: ( ) Package names only ( ) Descriptions (x) Files
>
> The Graal would be to have just one interface. With all the default
It is not really possible to do it in just a single form - there are
different options for that two searches, and it would confuse the people
and may make them think that there is a difference in the package
descriptions for the different architectures, or on the other hand that
the section could have influence on a file search.
That would just confuse the people even more.
> Last, maybe the form should be in the top of the page.
That could be right, I guess. On the other hand, it's not my job to
decide that, personally I think at least a <a href="#searchform"> link
at the top to the search forms would be great to help the people scroll
down.
Thanks,
Alfie
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