[plug] apt-get segfaulting

[Peter Caffin]

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Christian wrote:
> Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Peter Caffin wrote:
> > > As much as I find the Debian Homepage useful (up to date files, etc) and
> > > the Debian distribution great (I can't see myself wanting/needing to go
> > > back), the search page on that site sucks blowfish. To find packages, etc,
> > > I always find myself back at Altavista typing in things like `+debian
> > > +depends +packagename` to find things (which works).
> > 
> > Then you are probably not using the search page correctly.

An excuse for its poor interface design, surely?

> > Make sure you select "Descriptions", and if you can't find what you want,
> > select "all versions" and "all".

Stuff that, I'll just ignore the engine and its natty frames and odd
"features", and use Altavista which generally finds the page I'm after
with a couple of standard search terms ;).

> > The latest versions of apt-get, for
> > instance, will be in unstable. Then click on the appropriate package and
> > you will be presented with clear, useful dependencies.

This has nothing to do with the search page but more to do with the
general layout of their webpage (which I have already mentioned I approve
of greatly).
 
> I totally agree, Greg.  Once you get used to it the Debian package
> management system is quite superb and the web pages very useful.

And again, I would also agree that the package management system is
great (which I've already mentioned).

But their search page is not (for me) worth my time. Altavista is more
efficient at finding me the pages I want at www.debian.org than
www.debian.org's search script. I'm surprised it's a controversial
viewpoint.

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