RFC: Description text in packages

Conrad Meyer konrad at tylerc.org
Mon Dec 15 22:06:00 UTC 2008


On Monday 15 December 2008 09:55:49 am Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:47:40AM -0800, Christopher Stone wrote:
> > So, why not just go to the upstream website?  Spec file descriptions
> > are not the place to look for feature lists...
>
> Because I want to have 'yum search' do something useful and find those
> features.  eg. If I want a blog tool with spam filtering that's
> supported in Fedora, how do you propose to answer that question by
> going to a website?

Doesn't yum do OR searches by default still? That "feature" made searching for 
multiple terms pretty useless.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>





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