Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/2010 12:15 PM, Jano Kupec wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 06:08 PM, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:
>   
> > Quoting Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >     
> > > On 2010/10/13 17:22 (GMT+0200) Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar
> > > composed:
> > > You all misread this thread I started, which is about zypper se behavior,
> > > ultimately leading to https://features.opensuse.org/310690 . My OP
> > > provides
> > > an URL that explains why I posted on the Factory list.
> > >       
> > Absolutely true.. and the correct answer there was already given as
> > well: zypper currently supports this "only" usin "zypper wp"
> > (whatprovides).
> >
> > zypper wp libaa.so.1
> > => gives full list of packages providing this capability.
> >
> > As for the feature request: it's questionable why this should be split
> > in different runs indeed... (other than time constraints).
> >     
> If you are specifically looking for providers of some symbol, you want
> 'wp' (or something like 'search --what-provides'). You don't want zypper
> to list packages which have the symbol in names plus the packages which
> provide it.
>
>
> While we're at it, i little poll might be in place before implementing
> this in 'search'.
>
> Would you expect/want 'zypper se something' include packages which
> mention 'something' in their dependencies
> (require/provide/suggest/obsolete/conflict) in the default search
> output? Or would you want this to be opt-in (by adding --deps).
>
> My own preference is to stick with search in names only by default (as
> it is now), and only consider other stuff for searching
> (summaries/descriptions/dependencies/whatever) when requested by
> additional options.
>
> We can also make it configurable in zypper.conf.
>
>   
IMHO the only function missing from zypper and yast is a file search in
uninstalled files ie. if I want to find foo.h and it isn't in any file
installed on my system.
Dave P
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