On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:58:46 -0500 (EST), Seth Vidal wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:23:59 -0500 (EST), Seth Vidal wrote: > > > >> what other features would you want to advance yum's searching? > > > > To print context also for matches where the search strings are found in > > the description -- and print the 1-2 first lines of the description for > > all listed packages. That would make it more obvious which results are > > relevant. Here it highlights the matched string in the summaries, but > > descriptions that match are not printed. > > > yum search -v mail client The quotes are important here (or else you get output for almost 400 pkgs). I tried: yum search -v "mail client" It prints _full_ (!) descriptions, lots of empty lines (probably trying to improve readability), superfluous "Matched from:" lines (which make it less readable), a "Description" column that makes it less readable, debug output at the top. | thunderbird-lightning.i386 : The calendar extension to Thunderbird | Matched from: | Description : Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email | : client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Since it's an extension, | : Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to | : easily perform email-related calendaring tasks. Better IMO would be something similar to: thunderbird-lightning.i386 : The calendar extension to Thunderbird Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Since it's an extension, [...] tmda-ofmipd.noarch : Tagged Message Delivery Agent - ofmipd server TMDA is an open source anti-spam system and local mail delivery agent. tmda-ofmipd is an async I/O based authenticated ofmip proxy for TMDA. This allows users of any mail client [...] -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list