On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:22:57PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 01:46 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:35:58AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > > ... aaand now there's an RSS feed. > > cool, now how about making the package title a link to > > packages.debian.org? then we can peruse more details easily... > > I've thought about it... linking it like that doesn't quite feel right, > because for most users the information on p.d.o doesn't ADD much in > terms of discovering new and interesting software (which is the whole > point - it should answer, "How can this package benefit me / enhance my > life?"). (Though one might argue that it would be interesting to know > the suggests, depends, packages with similar tags, etc.) An ideal > would be if the package title linked to an informative homepage. If I > can come up with some way to automate that... Obviously my vision is > to make it simple (think google.com, not yahoo.com). It might be good > to put the p.d.o link somewhere else, like along the bottom.
the bottom of the p.d.o pages provide a variety of links, some of which actually go upstream, and that's probably where the real use is. ISTM, that since there is such a broad range of packages and one will theoretically be see number of packages about which one know NOTHING, that even the p.d.o page is better than naught. And, a lot of this stuff 9at least by me) is learned through osmosis. The more one read the more one understands. MAybe there's a way to grep the p.d.o pages for useful links if they occur? just thought. A
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