On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >Why have a local index? The user will need to go download the pkgs > >he/she finds that way, so we might as well make the search facility an > >infrastructure one (not necessarily co-located with the actual pkg > >repositories). > > I wasn't suggesting that it be used for a local index, but for > applications already installed it makes sense to do so for offline > operation. > > There are at least three cases I see this being used for: > > 1) web-based search on pkg.opensolaris.org using this information to > provide richer metadata and search > > 2) remote search from a client for software not already installed, which > ends up using the server's index > > 3) local search by a client for software already installed > > The richer metadata here is the many different translations that have > already been qa'd by the upstream provider present in the .desktop file.
I get it, and I agree. (3) is definitely important. So are (1) and (2). Nico -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
