[Yum-devel] ranked multiterm searching

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 07:24 -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:27:24 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > I implemented a ranked multi-term search routine in searchGenerator()
> >  
> > > Cons:
> > >  - b/c you have to sort the search results after you get them it slows
> > > down the results and partially defeats the purpose of the generator, at
> > > all.
> > >  - the more terms you add the slower it gets for obvious reasons.
> > 
> > Another con for me is that it takes the union of the results, rather
> > than the intersection. While adding more search terms does give me
> > better results at the top of the list, the list is longer and so harder
> > to sort through. Though I am willing to accept that I'm the only person
> > who'd want the intersection ;)
> 
> well, I was trying to get it to behave similarly to how google behaves.

 Well one of the reasons google can get away with this is that they only
display the first X matches. Doing that in yum search, by default, would
probably up the usability too.
 Maybe yum search --all-matches, for the everything?

-- 
James Antill <jantill at redhat.com>
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