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On Saturday 25 May 2002 16:34, david mattatall wrote: |
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> On May 24, 2002 02:34 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote: |
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> > emerge search seems to only search the name of the ebuild. Is there |
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> > currently any way to also search the description? And if not is there |
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> > any reason not to implement this? Doing something like 'emerge search |
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> > irc' does not return BitchX as an example. And something like icc |
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> > 'Intel's cc compiler' might be hard to search for since you may |
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> > not know the Gentoo agreed upon name of icc and simply search for intel. |
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> hrmm, don't take any offence to this but bitchx is in /usr/portage/net-irc. |
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> and what if some one does a description search for "a"? |
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grep doesn't disallow you to do a: |
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grep -r "a" /* |
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does it? |
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If people want to be stupid, let them. I think an added option of this nature |
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can be useful. I do think though a separate search command is more |
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appropriate though. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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