Trees (was: Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository)

2024-11-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/11/2024 17:30, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: " How Ecosia works: Like other search engines, we make money from ads. We then use 100% of our profits for the planet. The result: 200M trees and counting!" Just a warning: the following article mentions Ecosia as an example of transparency, while t

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Corey
November 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM, "Cindy Sue Causey" mailto:butterflyby...@gmail.com?to=%22Cindy%20Sue%20Causey%22%20%3Cbutterflybytes%40gmail.com%3E > wrote: > > On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 10:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 05:30:46 -0500 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: Hello Cindy, >I haven't researched the others, but it already feels >like ultimately there are only a couple actual search engines, lol. There's Mojeek. Unlike Startpage (and some of the others using google or bing as a back end) Mojee

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 10:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > > > > > > You might try Google, with "Debian" (in quotation marks) added to > > > your > > > search terms. You will als

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread tomas
On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 03:56:40AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:04:28 -0600 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > Synaptic's search nearly useless. > > > > > > I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. > > > I'm usua

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 14:36 +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:04:28 -0600 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Synaptic's search nearly useless. > > > > I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. > > I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on for another > > app. Rarely do I w

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread tomas
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:10:27PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 16 Nov 2024 at 19:15:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:52:37AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Be aware that apt-file searches for filenames in packages, > > > rather than pa

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Chris Green
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/16/24 6:17 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > >> On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >> Synaptic's search nearly useless. > >> > >> I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. > >> I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on f

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Nov 2024 at 19:15:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:52:37AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > Be aware that apt-file searches for filenames in packages, > > rather than package names and their descriptions. > > > > (And that's filenames, not path

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 08:51 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm explicitly looking for packages residing in the Debian repository. I > routinely do a web search if I'm unconcerned about where a program comes > from. By repository, do you mean something else than what you have enabled in your APT

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread tomas
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:52:37AM -0600, David Wright wrote: [...] > Be aware that apt-file searches for filenames in packages, > rather than package names and their descriptions. > > (And that's filenames, not pathnames.) Hm. I don't know what you mean by this, but I propose, as an experiment

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Nov 2024 at 08:56:51 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/16/24 6:55 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:41, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 11/16/24 6:17 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:04, Richard Owlett > > > > > > wrote: > > > >

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/16/24 6:55 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:41, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/16/24 6:17 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: Synaptic's search nearly useless. I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. I'm usually look

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/16/24 7:58 AM, Chris Green wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/16/24 6:17 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: Synaptic's search nearly useless. I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an a

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/16/24 8:36 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:04:28 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: Synaptic's search nearly useless. I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on for another app. Rarely do I want a command line tool. Suggestions

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/16/24 6:17 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: Synaptic's search nearly useless. I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on for another app. Rarely do I want a command line tool. Sug

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Henning Follmann
> On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:41, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 11/16/24 6:17 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> Synaptic's search nearly useless. >>> >>> I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. >>> I'm usually looking for a standalo

Re: Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Henning Follmann
> On Nov 16, 2024, at 07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Synaptic's search nearly useless. > > I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. > I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on for another app. > Rarely do I want a command line tool. > > Suggestions? > TIA Maybe apt-ca

Flexible search tool for Debian repository

2024-11-16 Thread Richard Owlett
Synaptic's search nearly useless. I need a search tool which uses Boolean logic. I'm usually looking for a standalone app, NOT an add-on for another app. Rarely do I want a command line tool. Suggestions? TIA