Re: Two New Software-Related Ideas

On 02/10/06, Omer Zak <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing whose absence I sorely feel:
> An improved way to have apropos.
[...]
> It would be nice to have some sort of database or a search engine, into
> which you can type keywords describing the task and it displays to you a
> list of potentially relevant software tools, command line options and
> commands which might be relevant to performance of that task.
>
On debian, I frequently use "apt-cache search".  When I don't know how to
formulate the search I launch "synaptic" and try all the searches I
can think of.
Both search the full description texts of all packages, which gives better
results than man -k.  Also, if I'm looking for the right tool, I want
to consider
all availiable packages, not only those those that happen to be installed.

On other distributions, I expect that searching the package database will
also give good results.

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]>


 
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