On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Kaya Saman<SamanKaya at netscape.net> wrote: > >>> >> >> Perhaps belenix could go one step ahead: If an app requires root use >> privelledges to run, then display a message "Run this command with >> sudo" or something like that, instead of the usual "Permission >> denied". Just a suggestion. >> >> Completely unrelated: how about adding "Did you mean" kind of >> suggestions. User tries - "spkg install openoffce". Instead of the >> usual, package not found, spkg could output a possible list of >> suggestions - Did you mean openoffice? This can be implemented using >> the Levenshtein word distance algorithm >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance). For invalid >> names, just calculate the levenshtein distance of the input package >> name with a list of all the packages and show few of the closest >> matches. >> > > Doesn't Ubuntu have this too?? > > root at Compaq2230s:~# apt-cache search iwconfig > iw - tool for configuring Linux wireless devices > knemo - network interfaces monitor for KDE's systray >
I'm talking about the spkg install, not spkg search :)
