User-friendly?

[Ben Segall]

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I suppose this could be done using something like yum's group*
commands, but the repositories would have to support it and say what
packages are used to play a dvd. You could also do "smart search 'dvd
play'" do search for dvd players as search looks in the summaries too.
To be safe you can also do "smart search dvd" as most of the linux
players do many things and therefore only 1 in my config actually has
'dvd player.'

Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

> I've recently been trying 'smart' on SuSE 10.0. [My previous
> mainstay for the downloading of packages was 'apt'.]
>
> I like the GUI, because it tells me __all__ the packages (i.e.,
> builds) that are available across all the channels. But my god,
> I'm overwhelmed by the number of "headers"! My conclusion -- if
> the user of 'smart' KNOWS what package he is looking for, he can
> expand the appropriate header in GUI, or can use 'search'.
>
> But 'search' does an __unintelligent__ comparison (e.g., 'dvd' in
> automatic mode shows all the packages which contain the string
> 'dvd' as part of the package_name). For those users who DON'T know
> what package_names they are looking for, I believe it would be much
> more user-friendly if "smart" could for example assist the user who
> asks: "What packages do I need to have, if I simply want to play a
> DVD ?"
>
> mikus
>
>
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