Daniel Burrows wrote:
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So, I'd really like to just change the default behavior of search
when it's given a bare string. If I were designing the program up-front
this is what I'd do, and I think it's the best end-point.
# Question #
How many readers of this list are using aptitude
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:20:21PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
One of the things I'd like to implement in an upcoming aptitude
release (probably post-lenny, likely next year) is a significant
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:55:58PM +0200, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows:
What I'd really like to do is a full-text search with approximate
matches on the whole package index that returns packages which might
be relevant to blah, with an option to sort the
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:58:27AM -0500, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On 04/15/2008 09:13 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I like the current default behavior for bare strings.
While I hope this goes without saying, there will probably be a
configuration option to disable this for
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:20:21PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The only search string I have in a script is my backup script which
generates a list of all installed packages not automatically installed
(i.e. manually installed packages). Off the top of my head its ~i!~M
but I could be
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:32:40PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I like the full-text search idea, but I dislike the idea of approximate
matches (without it being a different command or a parameter). It makes
search results less predictable and hurts cases where your search terms
yield
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:20:21PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I don't suppose while you're re-writing aptiutde you can make it not hit
swap when I start the curses interface on my P-II with 64 MB ram (or
will Lenny and whatever comes next not run on 64MB anyway)?
Do you have /tmp on
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:17:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Did aptitude work on this system in past Debian releases?
I use aptitude rarely and only for command-line tests (downloads,
simulate installs, compartation with the dependencies-resolving results
with apt-get. _Never_ for
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:45:22AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario [EMAIL
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:17:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Did aptitude work on this system in past Debian releases?
I use aptitude rarely and only for command-line tests (downloads,
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:57:48PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
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You need to tell in NEWS file that local scripts need to add ~n before
serch string to make it act as before under the new version.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:02:21 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:57:48PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki was heard to say:
...
You need to tell in NEWS file that local scripts need to add ~n before
serch
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:02:21AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL
PROTECTED] was heard to say:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:57:48PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
...
You need to tell in NEWS
Hello list,
I'd like to get a feel for how people use aptitude search.
# Background #
One of the things I'd like to implement in an upcoming aptitude
release (probably post-lenny, likely next year) is a significant
overhaul of the UI to the search engine; that is, how searches are
On 04/15/2008 09:13 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Hello list,
I'd like to get a feel for how people use aptitude search.
# Background #
One of the things I'd like to implement in an upcoming aptitude
release (probably post-lenny, likely next year) is a significant
overhaul of the UI to
Daniel Burrows wrote:
# Question #
How many readers of this list are using aptitude search as a
subcommand in a script? Will you be impacted by this change? Will
anyone else be adversely impacted despite not using it in a script?
I do not use aptitude search in a script and I am not
Hi,
I did not write complicated script with aptitude but I use long 1 liner
search in commandline often. So feature change is concern to me.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Hello list,
I'd like to get a feel for how people use aptitude search.
#
Daniel Burrows:
In the current CLI, aptitude search blah searches for packages
whose name contains blah. In contrast, apt-cache search blah
searches both package names and descriptions.
Which is the reason why I am almost exclusively using apt-cache for
searches (and probably the reason
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:13:30 -0700
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Daniel.
How many readers of this list are using aptitude search as a
subcommand in a script? Will you be impacted by this change? Will
anyone else be adversely impacted despite not using it in a script?
I have
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
One of the things I'd like to implement in an upcoming aptitude
release (probably post-lenny, likely next year) is a significant
overhaul of the UI to the search engine; that is, how searches are
entered and carried out from the
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:13:30AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Hello list,
I'd like to get a feel for how people use aptitude search.
# Background #
One of the things I'd like to
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:34:47PM +0200, Kim N. Lesmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:13:30 -0700
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Daniel.
How many readers of this list are using aptitude search as a
subcommand in a script? Will you be impacted
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