<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 06:26, Jukka Tuominen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi">jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi
Rodolfo,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">I'm glad you liked
it :)</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I've been following your announcements. Your ideal is interesting.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">Unfortunately
there's not yet a decent way to find out what's available. I've noticed the same
need while 'dog-fooding' on the system, and have planned to approach it in two
ways:</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">- Provide an
internal/external channel for people to make announcements (= web and/or posting
list)</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" face="Arial">- Add a search
functionality atleast with free-text search on object name and content, and 'my
history' options.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe some kind of indexed and searchable repository would be nice. Then this repository could provide an API to search for things.</div>
<div>For example one can do an "apt-cache search ..." to search APT repositories from the console, as well as use a GUI like Synaptic to perform a similar task.</div><div><br></div><div>> (take 2 (liitin:search "calculator"))</div>
<div>...</div><div><br></div><div>> (length (liitin:category "games"))</div><div>42</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[]'s</div><div><br></div><div>Rodolfo Carvalho</div></div>