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Bug 653332 - emerge --search in long decription in package metadata.xml
Summary: emerge --search in long decription in package metadata.xml
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2018-04-16 19:33 UTC by Thomas Coquelin
Modified: 2020-09-01 02:11 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Coquelin 2018-04-16 19:33:20 UTC
Hello,

Following discution in PR https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7558 about following the restriction to 80 chars of the description field in repoman.
I tested emerge --search to search for words in "long description" in the package metadata.xml and found nothing.

This enhancement is about having "emerge --search" also look into metadata.xml/long description. This enables both honoring the 80 chars limit for ebuild description field and add longer searchable string in metadata.xml.

The discution was also about what is displayed in the results but I don't see how not to break user experience.