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Subject:	RE: setup-procedure: "find" from homepage gives no category for a package
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 08:50:01 -0400
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Gahr, Wolfgang wrote on Friday, May 23, 2008 6:43 AM:

> A question concerning the setup-procedure.
> 
> It is difficult to find the category for a given package. I give an
> example: 
> 
> If you are looking for the package "rsync", you can use "find" on the 
> Homepage. But the resulting list shows no hint about the category for 
> the setup, so you have to search manually all the categories until
> you are lucky.   
> 
> It would be great to include the category to the results of the 
> "find".

As long as this is being discussed: I have long wished that <setup.hint> was included in the results, both to see the <ldesc> And <requires> without having to look inside <setup.ini>.  (So this is a convenience, not a necessity.)

- Barry
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