On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:33:42PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Currently the search result order is directly provided by MySQL. After > giving it a look a few weeks ago I concluded this would require to > actually implement the search post-processing (and not just modifying > something that exists) (sorry for not answering at that time). > > How about adding a feature that lets you manually specify the preferred > back-end when a package has more than one? That should be much less work. > And since this probably won't arise often, setting them manually > won't be much work for you either.
I think we're talking about different issues, your original request was: "When I connect to savannah.gnu.org with a browser and enter "emacs" in the search box, the first package it finds is not Emacs. I think that is a bug. Matches of the specified string in package names should come first, and the shortest matches should come first among the matches. That way, if you enter the exact name of a package, that package will always come first in the list you get." but I think you're talking about the fact Emacs uses both GNU Arch and CVS. I'll look at those issues hopefully soon. -- Sylvain
