On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:55:58PM +0200, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows: > > What I'd really like to do is a full-text search with approximate > > matches on the whole package index that returns packages which might > > be relevant to "blah", with an option to sort the results by various > > relevance metrics. > > I like the full-text search idea, but I dislike the idea of approximate > matches (without it being a different command or a parameter). It makes > search results less predictable and hurts cases where your search terms > yield many results anyway.
I think that depends on how approximate it is and how the results are ranked. Obviously this will take a lot of tuning; my main point is that I want to implement the most useful string-based search I can, and that's not going to just search names. :-) > Another aspect you should consider is speed. Aptitude is already quite > slow and memory intensive. In my opinion, you should refrain from making > it even more unsuitable for low-end devices than it already is. It's > Debian's preferred package manager, after all. Well, this won't impact anything other than "search", and it may actually make things faster (I'll probably use an index on the package cache, and I may even adjust the search interpreter to support some more efficient modes of operation...) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
