On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:47:39 +1300 David Phillips <dbphillipsnz@gmail.com> wrote:
I started wondering today about whether or not we could benefit from having the option of searching for AUR packages using regular expressions on the search page. For example, today I wanted to list all ruby gems on the AUR, so I thought searching `ruby-` would be enough, but it's got a bunch of other packages like `chruby-git` in there too. If we could even just use basic regex techniques like start of line and end of line, it'd be a big help.
What do you all think?
+1 If I search for something provided by the AUR, at the moment I use startpage or seldom google ;). They have their weak points too, but they seemingly remember others who searched for the same. "The same" seems not to be just a keyword, but the resume of searches with different keywords, there seems to be some kind of AI and ignorance of data protection behind the search algorithms.