Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed in Section contents in Synaptic Package Manager

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:11:45PM +0200, RKI Andreas wrote:

>> We should be happy if 5 out of 10 Joe
>> Users have the idea to type "med" into a search box - which
>> better know by itself that it should rather search for
>> "^.*med.*$". There's no way they'd think of typing that.
>
> No, searching for .*med.* has to many results.

merkur:~/bin# apt-cache search med | wc -l
1246
merkur:~/bin# apt-cache --names-only search med | wc -l
114
erkur:~/bin# apt-cache --names-only search medi | wc -l
56
merkur:~/bin# apt-cache search medic | wc -l
27
merkur:~/bin#

Not all that bad, I'd say.


>>> That should not be too hard.  Later we might be able to
>>> ship a dedicated Debian Med CD that has an adapted tasksel menu which
>>> features the options you get from the med-* packages.
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.
>
> The only problem is that this takes *a lot* of time.

Does not sound reasonable.

Karsten
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