[gentoo-dev] emerge search

[gentoo-dev] emerge search

[Sean P. Kane]

emerge search seems to only search the name of the ebuild. Is there
currently any way to also search the description? And if not is there
any reason not to implement this? Doing something like 'emerge search
irc' does not return BitchX as an example. And something like icc
'Intel's cc compiler' might be hard to search for since you may 
not know the Gentoo agreed upon name of icc and simply search for intel.


Thanks,
Sean 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge search

[david mattatall]

On May 24, 2002 02:34 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> emerge search seems to only search the name of the ebuild. Is there
> currently any way to also search the description? And if not is there
> any reason not to implement this? Doing something like 'emerge search
> irc' does not return BitchX as an example. And something like icc
> 'Intel's cc compiler' might be hard to search for since you may
> not know the Gentoo agreed upon name of icc and simply search for intel.

hrmm, don't take any offence to this but bitchx is in /usr/portage/net-irc. 
and what if some one does a description search for "a"?

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge search

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Saturday 25 May 2002 16:34, david mattatall wrote:
> On May 24, 2002 02:34 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> > emerge search seems to only search the name of the ebuild. Is there
> > currently any way to also search the description? And if not is there
> > any reason not to implement this? Doing something like 'emerge search
> > irc' does not return BitchX as an example. And something like icc
> > 'Intel's cc compiler' might be hard to search for since you may
> > not know the Gentoo agreed upon name of icc and simply search for intel.
>
> hrmm, don't take any offence to this but bitchx is in /usr/portage/net-irc.
> and what if some one does a description search for "a"?

grep doesn't disallow you to do a:
grep -r "a" /*

does it?

If people want to be stupid, let them. I think an added option of this nature 
can be useful. I do think though a separate search command is more 
appropriate though.

Paul

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RE: [gentoo-dev] emerge search

[Sean P. Kane]

Then they deserve what they get. 

It would still be nice to search descriptions. And if bitchx is in
net-irc then a search for irc should still find it and it doesn't. I'm
more then capable of looking in /usr/portage, but that really isn't the
point. For search to be truly usefull it should search more then the
name field.

Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: david mattatall [mailto:davidsmind@linuxbasics.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 07:35
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge search


On May 24, 2002 02:34 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> emerge search seems to only search the name of the ebuild. Is there 
> currently any way to also search the description? And if not is there 
> any reason not to implement this? Doing something like 'emerge search 
> irc' does not return BitchX as an example. And something like icc 
> 'Intel's cc compiler' might be hard to search for since you may not 
> know the Gentoo agreed upon name of icc and simply search for intel.

hrmm, don't take any offence to this but bitchx is in
/usr/portage/net-irc. 
and what if some one does a description search for "a"?
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