Re: Package quality

2001-03-05 Thread Brian May
> "Ray" == Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ray> When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this Ray> has a percentage in it. What does that mean? I've just wondered Ray> about this for awhile and just thought I'd ask. Thanks very much. It means that,

Re: Package quality

2001-03-05 Thread John Hasler
Ray Percival writes: > When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this has a > percentage in it. What does that mean? It supposedly represents the "quality of the search". It has nothing to do with the quality of the package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danc

Re: Package quality

2001-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this >has a percentage in it. What does that mean? I've just wondered >about this for awhile and just thought I'd ask. Thanks very much. It's actually the search accuracy, and even that seems to be wrong. E

Re: Package quality

2001-03-05 Thread Glenn Becker
It is more an indication of the 'relevance' of that particular item returned by your search. So think 'quality' of the package vis-a-vis what the search engine is guessing you were looking for ... F'rinstance, if I enter "VRML" as a search string, the "vrweb" package (which has to do almost exclu

Package quality

2001-03-05 Thread Ray Percival
When you search for a package it has a column for quality and this has a percentage in it. What does that mean? I've just wondered about this for awhile and just thought I'd ask. Thanks very much.