The problems with search the swup databases are 1) swup is slow, it has to connect to some remote place on each invocation and download files (or confirm local copies are up to date; whatever it does is slow) It's fine for updates but too slow for searching 2) options are obscure and hard to remember 3) requires root access
A web-based version should solve all three problems. It's slow enough that I usually do something else while waiting for it to complete. Since my idea is that this feature (a database, that is, not swup) is intended to help newbies it should have extensive text search capabilities, my example was bad, as I already know about dos2unix -- a newbie should be able to search on terms like "text file conversion". Having it at your site would be a form of marketing, "here is what we have to offer", people could paw around in the database without installing TSL. -- Brian Wilson Corvallis, Oregon 541-368-4120 _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
