[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Doug Winter]

David Damerell wrote:
> I could have been more clear. I don't mean finding a package I know
> exists; that's fine. I mean some way to chop down that list by saying
> "I don't do Fortran or languages other than English or bioinformatics,
> don't show me any games" and stuff like that until there are 250
> things in it and I can read each one's potted description and say
> "Hey! That sounds pretty handy!"

Some of the other interfaces like synaptic and aptitude present a pretty 
decent interface for browsing through the package listing.

I think the actual problem "find interesting things from this long list 
of possibly interesting things" is probably in itself quite a difficult 
one for a computer to solve however :)

doug.


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