[email protected] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:59:32PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote:
Help me understand the use case for frequent local search that I'm not
seeing... Once the software is installed on your machine, why are you
searching for it? I can see doing this once in a great while because the
binary didn't get delivered into a directory that's in your path, and so
you have to figure out where the silly thing actually got placed. Since
I've been running OpenSolaris, I think I've done that a handful of
times. Other than that, I can't think of use cases for most of our users.
One case that comes to mind: you have a file name and would like to work
backwards to find its package.
-j
Again, maybe I'm being dense, but that's a common usage for an end user
who (probably) isn't packaging their own software? I'm not saying we
should blow up local search, just trying to justify my claim that it's
rarely used outside of packagers of software.
Brock
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