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On Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 00:06, Vadim wrote: |
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> Sure, that sometimes works. But not always. I can think of multiple |
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> problems with that. For example: |
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> That assumes that the web site says something useful about it. It might |
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> be a site from somebody who just put his/her stuff on the web in case |
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> somebody find it useful, with no documentation at all. Or it might |
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> happen to be some obscure tiny tool made by a large company that's got a |
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> huge site where you have to search for 15 minutes until your find |
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> something. |
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> Sometimes, you have network problems too. The site might be down. Or |
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> have moved somewhere else. Or perhaps you have a local Gentoo mirror and |
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> no internet connection due to problems/paranoid security. |
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> Then, there is a problem with searching. I'd like to be able to find |
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> SAMBA without knowing how it, or the protocol is called. Most people |
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> might try to search for "windows network", for example. The URL is not |
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> very helpful when you know what kind of tool you want, but not the exact |
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> tool. |
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Put the long descriptions in a separate package, like a gentoo description |
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database. If somebody need it, he can emerge it. Then the portage tree |
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will not grow because of the long descriptions, and you can split the |
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descrition database for example in pieces, so you dont have to download |
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the complete database if one package description changes. |
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If emerge -S find such a database, it will search that too, if not, then |
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not ;-) |
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If somebody even has enough sparetime, this package can be easy extended, |
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for example to search also a database on the net.. |
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... only thinking.... |
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<Earny> |
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