It would appear that on Sep 12, Tejas Guruswamy did say:
On 12/09/10 01:43, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: --<snip>--
But it seems I'm going to need to know the package names intimately to find things however. For example there's a utility called emprint from one of the enlightenment versions (I think e17) That I like to use to add screen shot capability to bash scripts which I can then use without having to touch that durned rodent pointing device. Well anyway I remember that when I played with that search link you included above it didn't find anything for emprint, nor did it show up in yast's software managements searches for enlightenment, e17, or e16, but when I searched specifically for emprint with yast, it found it...
I do wish there was a good way to search/browse for software packages by descriptions of what they do rather than having to know what they are named. It would help regular Joe-users discover new software choices they were not previously familiar with. --<snip>--
Did you look at the "Description" tab in the lower-right of the Yast2 software installation window? It shows a long description of whatever package you have selected.
Yes I had... And for example that "enlightenment-1.0.0-5.1" didn't say
anything about it's being E17 anywheres in the description field. But I'll
admit in retrospect it did have one clue I should have noticed. At the
bottom of that description field there is an Authors list that included the
Rasterman " Carsten Haitzler
Also, in the top-left, click the "View" dropdown and add the "Patterns", "Package Groups", and "RPM Groups" tabs - they may help you find new packages as they group software by purpose.
Now those View settings look very very useful... Now I'm kicking myself
in the head (or would be if I was just a little bit more nimble) for not
experimenting with those view settings the first time I opened yast's
software management tool... ;-7
Thanks!
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