port search

N_Ox n.oxyde at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 09:31:50 PDT 2007


Le 21 sept. 07 à 12:34, Mij a écrit :

>
> On 21/set/07, at 08:00, N_Ox wrote:
>
>> Le 20 sept. 07 à 20:44, Mij a écrit :
>>>
>>> wouldn't it be better to make "search" actually searching  
>>> thoughout descriptions too?
>>>
>>
>> Just use `port search description:fortran`.
>
> Automatically searching in the name AND description would be more  
> handy,
> consistent with other package managers and intuitive.
>
> If one want to search the name alone, it can use "search name:"  
> instead.
>
> JM2C

I don't find it consistent with other package managers (at least not  
Fink, Portage or pkgsrc), neither than more intuitive.

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Anthony Ramine, the infamous MacPorts Trac slave.
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