On Mon 21 Jul 2008 at 04:09PM, Brock Pytlik wrote:
> In general, set actions have 4 pieces of information.
> 1) That it's a set action (column 2)
> 2) The package the action is in (column 4)
> 3) The name of the attribute set (column 3)
> 4) The value of the attribute set (column 1)
>
> Sometimes these are duplicates of each other (as in the case above), and
> in the cases I know them to be duplicates (only the fmri one leaps to
> mind) I choose to present what I thought was the appropriate information.
I think in the future, one user selectable mode for search *might* be to
only search the 'set' actions (sort of "search info" if you will).
Sort of "search for descriptions matching" versus "search contents" --
the other actions tend to throw up a lot of chaff that is not useful
most of the time.
i.e. "pkg search -r screen" "succeeds" because it happens to match
usr/share/lib/terminfo/s/screen, but that's not helpful to the user
who just really wants GNU Screen.
Another minor problem I've just spotted is that there's no way to get
the authority information from the search result-- so if you have
multiple auths, it's hard to know who is offering you the content.
Brock, perhaps you can distill some of this into followup RFE's,
so that we have some of this recorded?
I think we can all RFE you to death here, but I don't want to see
that block getting some incremental improvement in place in the
build 94/95 time frame.
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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