"dnf search" as braindead as "yum search"

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 25 13:39:00 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:03:39AM +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> To have nice full text search would mean to use full text search
> engine. And I suppose that this extra dependency in DNF would be not
> welcomed by many - including cloud SIG. However this can be easily
> done as plugin and put in dnf-plugins-extra.

Agreed -- not the best core functionality because of space, but I'd
definitely welcome full-text search on my desktop. Especially really
smart FTS where I could narrow down what fields are searched, like
"description:foo" or even "changelog:1048424".

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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