Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:59 AM, David Phillips wrote: >>So assumed there would be a helper that provides the kind of search you > need, you won't use it, as a matter of principle and because there are > freakish discussions about helpers? > > If (more or less) all it did was search the AUR, then

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-05 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 at 01:05:48, Ian D. Scott wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 12:38:24AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Assumed somebody can recommend a good helper to search the AUR, I'm > > willing to test it. > > I don't know if any AUR helpers support this, but you can just get a > list of al

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-05 Thread Johannes Löthberg
On 05/11, David Phillips wrote: So assumed there would be a helper that provides the kind of search you need, you won't use it, as a matter of principle and because there are freakish discussions about helpers? If (more or less) all it did was search the AUR, then I would look at using it. But

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
OT: On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:09:39 -0500 Connor Behan wrote: > Is opposition to AUR helpers really so hard to believe? A few years > ago, there were a lot of people posting comments about "the build > system being broken" when they were actually experiencing bugs in > yaourt. When ever yaourt fail

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Connor Behan
On 04/11/14 06:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:25:10 +1300 David Phillips wrote: I don't understand why some people are against such helpers. Without veering too far off this thread's topic, there's a large number of discussions on the web which cover this. So assumed there

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Ian D. Scott
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 12:38:24AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed somebody can recommend a good helper to search the AUR, I'm > willing to test it. I don't know if any AUR helpers support this, but you can just get a list of all AUR packages with this command and then pipe to grep to match b

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread David Phillips
>So assumed there would be a helper that provides the kind of search you need, you won't use it, as a matter of principle and because there are freakish discussions about helpers? If (more or less) all it did was search the AUR, then I would look at using it. But the regex thing is such a trivial

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:25:10 +1300 David Phillips wrote: > > I don't understand why some people are against such helpers. > > Without veering too far off this thread's topic, there's a large > number of discussions on the web which cover this. So assumed there would be a helper that provides the

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread David Phillips
> I don't understand why some people are against such helpers. Without veering too far off this thread's topic, there's a large number of discussions on the web which cover this. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread John D Jones III
On 11/04/2014 04:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:12:01 +1300 David Phillips wrote: I don't know which helper to use to search the AUR, but my experiences with updating from AUR by using yaourt are very good. I don't understand why some people are against such helpers. yaourt r

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:12:01 +1300 David Phillips wrote: > I could use an AUR helper except that I'm fundamentally opposed to > them ;) I don't know which helper to use to search the AUR, but my experiences with updating from AUR by using yaourt are very good. I don't understand why some people ar

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 00:05:46 +0100 Karol Blazewicz wrote: > You can use an AUR helper. Please, could you be more precise? If I tell people that I use yaourt, they often are terrified that I do this. What from those helpers https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers do you recommend for sea

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread David Phillips
I could use an AUR helper except that I'm fundamentally opposed to them ;) -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:47 PM, David Phillips wrote: > Hi all, > I started wondering today about whether or not we could benefit from > having the option of searching for AUR packages using regular > expressions on the search page. For example, today I wanted to list > all ruby gems on the AUR,

Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:47:39 +1300 David Phillips wrote: > I started wondering today about whether or not we could benefit from > having the option of searching for AUR packages using regular > expressions on the search page. For example, today I wanted to list > all ruby gems on the AUR, so I thou

[aur-general] Regex on search page

2014-11-04 Thread David Phillips
Hi all, I started wondering today about whether or not we could benefit from having the option of searching for AUR packages using regular expressions on the search page. For example, today I wanted to list all ruby gems on the AUR, so I thought searching `ruby-` would be enough, but it's got a bun