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FS#13099 - Make package groups show up in search results

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 20:34 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 03:04 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version 3.3.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Right now it's a bit confusing. Example follows:

"hmm there is a kde package called extramod.."
$ pacman -Ss extragear
"hmm it's not here??"
(some minutes later after browsing kde ftp)
$ pacman -Ss skanlite
extra/skanlite 0.2-5 (kde-extragear)
Image Scanning Application for KDE
"??"
$ p -S kde-extragear
kde-extragear package not found, searching for group...
:: group kde-extragear (including ignored packages): < (btw, don't know what is meant with ´ignored´ packages there?)
kcoloredit kfax kgrab kgraphviewer kiconedit kio_gopher kmldonkey konq-plugins kopete-cryptography kpovmodeler skanlite
:: Install whole content? [Y/n]


So would it be possibe to search package groups aswell? If it is possible to install a package group it should be possible to search for it too!

Sat it to medium because this could cause confusion(it did for me!)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 03:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in git, commit 8c8fa
Comment by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 20:39 GMT
also one cannot do

$ pacman -Ql kde-extragear
error: package "kde-extragear" not found

which is equally confusing.
Comment by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 20:43 GMT
or pacman -Qs kde-extragear.. you fill in the rest (sorry for all the comments)
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 21:26 GMT
to see all groups type pacman -Sg
Comment by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 00:24 GMT
that's nice. guess i haven't been keeping up with pacman development(/never). i'll let this bugreport stay though because the way in which pacman behaves is inconsistent. I know it is a technical decision but users will not expect to NOT see a package group in the search result, or not be able to interact with a package group as they do with a normal package.

on the backend side it can be as it is currently, however, to add two new pacman flags wouldn't be needed on the frontend if one was able to interact with package groups like any other package!
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 06 June 2009, 17:32 GMT
Patch submitted:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-June/008715.html

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