Reply to the list next time please. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Please, would specify in the global packages list, from which group each package is related. Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:39:21 +0100 From: Guillaume Tessier <g_tessier@orange.fr> To: David Mandelberg <mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org> References: <[🔎] 41EC4696.3040008@orange.fr> <[🔎] 41EC4E68.6010802@eth0.is-a-geek.org> David Mandelberg wrote: >Guillaume Tessier wrote: > > >>I would like to point out a quite irritating thing in the packages web >>page : there is a lot of package and when i'm looking for a specic >>package, sometimes i really spend grat among of time finding it. >> >>I explain : off course there is the package list do browse the whole >>database, but it could be nice if you could specify in which group of >>packages you classified it. I use aptitude and sometimes i need to >>browse lot's of pakages group to find the one i'm looking for. >> >>For exemple, i'm now looking for cdrecord. The package list tells me it >>exists but i can't find it while browsing the packages groups that >>appear 'to me' as evident. >> >>Please, would specify in the global packages list, from which group each >>package is related. >> >> >Do you mean something like <http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/>? > > > David, Thanks for writing and sorry for being long to reply to you. Right, the global package list is nice : you think about a software you would like and you just go onto this page to 'do your software market' & get some more information about it (like the useful bug report and stuff....) but when i go back to aptitude to download & install the package, it happens that i don't find it in the package directory i expected . /Exemple :/ _mozilla_ ----> in the web software directory indeed. _cdrecord_ ------> Admin utilities ....NO, base utilities... NO, Utilites... NO, Miscellaneous...NO! Finally, i found it in 'Other OS's and file systems'...(i even looked in newsgroup :)). As the debian packages repository is rather enormous, i think i could be great to specify in the global package list : http://packages.debian.org/testing/allpackages and when you click onto the cdrecord hyperlink, to get a ligne on the cdrecord web page (http://packages.debian.org/testing/otherosfs/cdrecord) "cdrecord belongs to the Other OS's and Filesystems direcrory." Then it's quick to find & download this soft with aptitude... (i admit i could just apt-get it...). Allright, that's just a proposal to increase the already high quality service provided by debian mainteners. Guillaume -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>++++$L++++$*-- P+>++$ L+++(++++)$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o? K- w--(---) O? M V? PS++@ PE-@ Y+@ PGP++(+++)>$ t? 5? X? R tv--(-) b++(+++)@ DI? D? G e->++++ h* r? z* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ David Mandelberg mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org
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