[PATCH] feat(rpc): return "providers" packages when querying by `name` or `name-desc`

[尤立宇]

2018-03-21 2:56 GMT+08:00 Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>:
> > What is
> > the rationale for making it part of name and name-desc? Wouldn't it make
> > more sense to add a new search type ("providers")?
I vote for a new search type "providers".
For my use case, I'd appreciate if I can get precise information from the RPC,
instead of parsing the aurweb html or crawling the entire AUR.
I prefer having a bulk query here so I can keep the request count low.

> Well, we have no precedent here as archweb does not allow searching by
> provides either AFAICT. But I think, generally speaking, from a
> usability perspective any search that is not an exact-name search is
> probably *interested* in these provides packages.

> pacman -Ss will show them, pacman -S will install them, so the web
> interfaces arguably should do the same.

Actually I just found it confusing that:
pacman -Ss 'gcc>7' shows nothing, yet
pacman -S 'gcc>7' will do the right stuff
I'd argue that pacman should provide a search providers. But at least
it has alpm_find_satisifier.