Suggestion...
Hello,
Looking at the possible mail choices I couldn't figure out which was most appropriate. I'm sorry if this is not the right place to send my suggestion.
First, congrats for a great distro! I really enjoy Debian and believe it is THE best distro!
But in order to make it even better, I would like to offer a suggestion. To make the 'package' search a little bit better because it really, really is awful right now.
For example, I wanted to build the kernel for the first time but couldn't get it to compile. Searching the net, I saw many many pages indicated to install the kernel headers and some even went as far as to suggest typing 'rpm -i kernel-headers.rpm'. Using your package search I tried searching for 'kernel headers', 'kernel-headers' and 'kernel' to no avail.
It was on another site which I found that I should install 'build-essentials' with apt-get. Doing so I realized that it was going to automatically install 'linux-kernel-headers'. So why didn't your search engine give me this option in the first place? Why is it so limited? This is very frustrating and could have saved me a good hour worth of time. Not to mention all the other times that I didn't find my packages.
It is in frustrating situations like this that my friends and peers defect to other distros (not that they are better). And usually, I have to follow suite!
Thanks in advance,
Christian Jean
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