On 20050612T203113-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> (For that matter, the dpkg delay on "Reading database" is kind of annoying
> too. Hm. Good project for someone.)
I've noticed that dpkg --clear-avail && dpkg --forget-old-unavail speeds
dpkg up (very much so if the machine is memory-starved).
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Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At a minimum, even if you never use the nice GUI, the automatic tracking
> of packages that can be deleted automatically when nobody depends on
> them is worth it. It seems like this functionality really ought to be
> in the libraries, not aptitude.
Yeah
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm still using apt-get rather than aptitude because apt-get seems subtly
> but noticably faster. But I *am* using debfoster, which lets you get at
> some similar information. Maybe popularity-contest should pay attention
> to that as well?
Yeah, aptitu
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Or popularity-contest could be enhanced to note auto-installed
> packages. Now that aptitude is gaining traction (particularly in
> command-line mode - I guess people have been using it in full-screen
> mode for awhile), the aptitude auto-install flag
[Christian Aichinger]
> The reverse dependency count just isn't a very good metric for "is an
> end-user package". I think it's also a job for debtags or something
> like it, to tell us what is an end-user package and what isn't.
Or popularity-contest could be enhanced to note auto-installed
pack
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:44, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> Debtags might not cut it either, but might be an improvement over a free
> keyword search which ends up turing the wron packages just because they
> have the word used in the query. A good search function could:
>
> - use keywo
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:44:53PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> - use package dependancies to ponder if this is an end-user package or
> something pulled in by other packages (users typically look for end-user
> programs)
I do not think will work very well. Where do you set the
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:06:16PM +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote:
> Le Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:40:52 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña a
> écrit :
>
> > No package frontend I am aware of can currently pull that stunt. Aptitude
> > or dselect can only search in the package names ('/' key). Synaptic
Le Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:40:52 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña a
écrit :
> No package frontend I am aware of can currently pull that stunt. Aptitude
> or dselect can only search in the package names ('/' key). Synaptic can
> search in the descriptions (with equivalent results as apt-get).
Th
> > - Better package search mechanism (tags?) allowing free text search
> > in package management interfaces: "I want a program that does X"
>
> Doesn't 'apt-cache search X' do exactly that?
[ Here's the in-depth answer from my POV ]
Think of a *end* user that wants to find the most popular mu
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