Stephane Gourichon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In relation to the recent rant about the new rpmdrake... > > * One more disappearing regreted feature: > > In previous releases (7.1 I think) there was a primitive rpmdrake tool, > that allowed an interesting feature, though it was not intended by the > developper, and disappeared in the 8.x. > > Imagine you were looking for, say, an xfig replacement. You would search > for xfig. In 7.1 the search engine highlighted xfig *in its category*. > Then, you just had to look at xfig's neighbours in the category to find > similar programs.
In rpmdrake-2, the sorting by RPM Group is back, and it should match 99% of the problems you solved that way. Suppose you want to find CD Burning applications, with rpmdrake-1.5 it was kinda hard (search "burning" in descriptions? you can miss some), now just select "All packages, by group" then Archiving/CD Burning. [...] > To continue with the xfig example, I know that you can look for "vector > drawing" or the like, but sometimes you know a program that is similar > to the one you're looking for, but you don't know what keywords to use. > (Or the keyword is too vague, like "network" of "font" so you have tons > of irrelevant results.) > > The improvement could take the form of a button (or contextual menu) > that says "jump to the category where this package belongs". It's an interesting idea but very advanced and specialized. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
