Re: Search improvements (Was: Opposition to new single-letter package name "t")

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Taylan,

Taylan Kammer 写道：
> This discussion made me realize that "guix search" might benefit 
> from
> the following improvement though:  I think the relevance score 
> for a
> search result should be increased significantly if the searched 
> word is
> a standalone (not substring) part of a package's name when the 
> name is
> split into dash-separated words.

Thanks for remembering ‘guix search’!  It didn't occur to me at 
all.

For most upstreams whether or not dashes were in vogue[0] when 
they named their project is literally arbitrary.  We'd penalise 
many other packages like texlive-todonotes, open{ssh,vpn,*}, 
ktexteditor, r-performanceanalytics, qutebrowser, ...  It's not a 
net win.

If I might pet my own peeve, I think clever heuristics appear 
necessary in part because %package-metrics grossly overscores 
package names.  Rank them *below* synopsis & description--which 
will contain the name anyway--with a metric of 1, maybe 2.  Enough 
to keep the relevant stuff above the irrelevant stuff (python- > 
ruby-, etc.) without distorting things as they do now.

Kind regards,

T G-R

[0]: Not a joke.

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