David Powell wrote:
Brock Pytlik wrote:
Thanks for articulating these, these were the kinds of examples I was
looking for.
For my own clarity, other than the speed, are there ways that pkg
search are not currently meeting your needs (at least in replacing
grep /var/.../contents)?
I haven't used it enough to say. An often ignored side effect of
speed bumps is they greatly discourage experimentation, and in turn
understanding.
That said, the two things that frequently trip me up is needing to
specify -l all the time (especially in laptop world where
connectivity isn't absolute, it just feels more natural to have to
specify a flag when I want to go off and access the network), and
having to specify wildcards when I want to do a substring search
(something that makes perfect sense and I'll just have to get used
to :).
The usage data and feedback we've gathered indicated that a large
majority of users were searching for *available* software, as opposed to
*already installed* software, thus local search is not the default.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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