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On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:39:06 +1300 |
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Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 25 March 2014 03:55, Damien Levac <damien.levac@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > A lot of people already replied to this question: package search. |
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> > A trivial example, a user want to know all terminals available in |
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> > portage. Of course he could try a `emerge --searchdesc terminal`, |
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> > but then he would get anything mentioning terminal in the |
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> > description: which would probably include a lot of "terminal |
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> > applications" which are not terminals themselves... |
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> > |
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> > `emerge --search terminal` just doesn't cut it as "konsole" |
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> > wouldn't be a result but is a terminal emulator... |
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> > On the other hand, terminals are spread through many categories |
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> > (gnome-terminal in gnome-base & konsole in kde-base to name the most |
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> > obvious example). |
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> > Thus tags are a nice way for user to find the applications they |
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> > want. |
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> > |
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> Because looking at this example and the results of `eix -cS |
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> terminal`, I see lots of things that may also be ambiguously tagged |
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> "terminal" due to being a terminal based application. |
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> Thus, either "terminal-emulator" or "terminal-app" or similar tags |
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> seem necessary. |
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> emerge --search tag:terminal-app tag:jabber-client ( or similar ) |
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> should thus result in net-im/mcabber |
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You do this by searching for intersection of tags. |
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terminal ∩ jabber ∩ client |
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Jan Matějka | Developer |
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