On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:15:01AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Brian Russo wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:53:43AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Instead of (or in addition to): > > > This way, one doesn't need to know the section of a packge to > > > look it up. > > > > Why can't you just packages.debian.org/package and figure it out? > > Three reasons: > > - The packages.debian.org/package URL does a search and is not a > direct link. > > - That takes longer, > - it's pretty much broken (exact matches usually score last),
hm yeah it's pretty crap-ish. > - you can't really use that as a URL to a package in, for > example, a debian-user reply (so you'd have to looyup the > section name before writing your reply). > > - The fact that you said `do this extra step and figure it out' > implies it's not optimal. > > - I want to add links in an emacs menu for debian-changelog-mode > to invoke the web page for a package. debian-changelog-mode > has no way of knowing what section the package is in. fair enough. > > Peter -- Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian/GNU Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org LPSG "member" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
