Re: patch http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:05:48AM +0200, Tommy Dugandzic wrote:
> I suggest replacing this:
> 
>  ----
>  Even when searching on subwords is not checked, appending an
>  asterisk, '*', to the end of a keyword will allow subword searching
>  for that word.
>  ----
> 
> with this:
> 
>  ----
>  Searching for subwords is not checked unless you append an asterix ("*")
>  to the end of a keyword.
>  ----
> 
> or optionally with this:
> 
>  ----
>  Searching for subwords is not checked unless you append an asterix ("*") 
>  to the end of a keyword. If you append an asterix to one of your 
>  keywords, that particular keyword will be searched for subwords.
>  ----

Both of your rephrasings are incorrect: enabling the searching for
subwords option is equivalent to appending an asterix to the end
of the keywords.

> Also, I wonder, why not enable regex searching for those inclined? I 
> understand Google can't do that due to their huge db. But is the package 
> db really too big for that? Or are there other reasons?

Because the package database is indexed by an old version of swish
that does not support regex searching.

-- 
Matt