Bug 14788

Summary:	Readability
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	James <tech>
Component:	[OLD] gpackages	Assignee:	Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) <klieber>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description James 2003-01-30 12:29:34 UTC

It's a suggestion.

It's hard to locate the "packages" link listed on the left side of the web page.

Once inside the "packages" page, there is no way to search for a specific package.

Just a thought,

J

Comment 1 D.A.M. Revok 2003-03-10 20:36:26 UTC

I second this: it /used/ to be possible to see a single-page package list, so one could use one's browser/finder to find a given package, but then that single-list page disappeared, and now one has to blunder blindly, being menu-bludgeoned MS-style in the /hopes/ that one will sooner-or-later discover what version of a package it is that is unmasked... or..
if one doesn't fine one's intended package, one can either guess that the package isn't included at all, or
one can guess that it's masked...

monstrously wrong, that "improvement"...

Comment 2 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-17 09:47:54 UTC

if someone would like to write and submit a searchable package interface that is scalable, we would be happy to look at implementing it.   For now, however, users may use 'emerge -s <search term>' to search their local portage tree.