I was unaware that we had any support for keywords. But even if we do, a distro author's idea of what the keywords are may not match the users' or the users' expectations of how to search the cpan. If keywords exist then they might be a good *addition* to the CPAN search tools but can't replace searching by (part of) package name at least until all the infrastructure supports them and they are commonly used.
-- David Cantrell This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would therefore ask that the recipient be so kind as to excuse any failures of courtesy or linguistic inelegance as an unfortunate side-effect of the technology. On 20 Sep 2012, at 15:45, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote: > David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes: > >> I would say that it's actually *useful* to index them all. That way >> your dist will show up if people search for 'FLAC' (to pick just one >> example), which is probably a Good Thing. > > That would be the purpose of keywords. Not indexes by package name. > > -- Johan
