It is possible to use Pallet to search the port tree by name,
description, category all at once.
Pallet can be installed via MacPorts and is still pre-alpha, so the
searching is about all its good for at this point.
On 22 Sep 2007, at 08:48, N_Ox wrote:
Le 22 sept. 07 à 12:30, Mij a écrit :
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.
Fink does not, fink gives user two different commands to achieve
name and name + description search.
Concerning Portage, it's my "best -ever package manager", and i
would like some features of it being ported to MacPorts (who said
slots?).
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.
Search for editor inside description is no good anyway, you would
rather do `port search category:editors`
Anyway, try to make a balanced comparison and take your choice.
bye
IMHO The only thing we need is better documentation, and this
problem will soon disappear.
Regards,
--
Anthony Ramine, the infamous MacPorts Trac slave.
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