[sbopkg-users] Feature Request

alkos333 me at alkos333.net
Sat Feb 21 17:33:52 UTC 2009


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Dave Woodfall <dave at unrealize.co.uk> wrote:
> On (08:38 21/02/09), alkos333 <me at alkos333.net> put forth the proposition:
>>
>> When one of the packages is updated, I always use the newly added
>> <String> search (in SVN) to see which other packages might be affected
>> and need to be recompiled.  The problem is that the entire repository
>> is searched and sometimes I get quite a long list.  I think it would
>> be nice to have an option to narrow the search to installed packages
>> only.
>>
>> For example, when boost just got updated, I did a <String> search and
>> found out that Inkscape uses it as well, so I added it to the queue as
>> well.
>>
>> What do you think folks?
>
> Sounds reasonable. Something like an 'Installed packages' checkbox?
>

Yes, something similar to that, so that instead of searching the
entire repository for the string specified, it would just search only
within the installed packages.


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