port search

[Mij]

On 21/set/07, at 18:31, N_Ox wrote:

>
> 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)

Some examples doing so:
APT - the first and sometimes told the best -ever package manager
yum - redhat's one
ports
(I don't know more)

fink also does.

Besides all, it all depends to what you want to be inspired. Portage  
is what most people
argue is the reason why the "Gentoo wave" weakened in favour to  
Ubuntu. Pkgsrc has a
very restricted userbase so they probably haven't a strong feedback  
about usability
topics.


> neither than more intuitive.

you usually prefer to issue one search, get a list of some results  
that you walk and
ignore the ones you're not interested in, better than not finding  
what you wanted to,
and need to issue another command to find the rest to be sure.

And, as if you're coming from one package manager you're most  
probably coming
from one between APT, yum or ports, you could expect that the search  
is in name AND
description, and give up when you see that searching for "editor" has  
no results and
erroneously conclude that macports portbase is still poor.

Anyway, try to make a balanced comparison and take your choice.

bye