On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Andrei Thorp<garoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello there! > > Today, I'd like to be all complainy about the AUR search feature. I > haven't really looked around, but are there plans to improve it? Or is > the solution just "use google with site://"? > > It seems to be kind of bad at finding stuff. Some examples: > - Can't search by description (well, it does search by description by > default, but it's not in the advanced options anywhere) > - Can't really do any decent multi-word searches afaik. To take an > example from the other argument thread, try searching for "java > gstreamer". It finds neither gstreamer-java nor java-gstreamer. It > actually finds nothing at all. > - Similarly, wildcards seem to not work. "java*gstreamer" has no results. > - It seems to not even do exact matches first. For example, search for > my package, "sup". There is a package in AUR that's exactly named > "sup", but if you search for that, you get 658 results, sorted > alphabetically! > - Which reminds me, what about sorting by relevance somehow? Perhaps > sort by a weighting of votes, age, downloads, etc. > > I'm sorry if I'm bringing this up as someone's already writing > improvements for AUR and this is just a waste of time :) > > Anyway, thanks! > -- > Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) > > <miguel> any new sendmail hole I have to fix before going on vacations? > -- Seen on #Linux > The AUR interface has a seperate section in the bug tracker. There is also a seperate mailing list for its development. -- Greg
