On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Seth Vidal (skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> Keywords as a concept are harder than you might think for a lot of
> people. Especially if they have to come up with them on their own. You
> ever met someone for whom google was not useful? Those are often people
> who have trouble figuring out what are good keywords on their own.
> However, if they are presented with a list of common keywords they can
> pick out the ones they care about. I know it's odd but I've seen it occur
> very commonly.
Yes, but which audience are we talking about? The one that wants to find
a billiards game, or the one that wants to find PHP bindings for FTP
support? It's possible that these two audiences have a similar searching/
keywording skill level, but I'm not sure it's likely.
(Which goes back, again, to who and what are we creating this data for.)
Which is why the interface isn't all-or-nothing.
If you know the search terms you want to find then type in:
php ftp
then you get back more or less what 'yum search php ftp' gives you:
============================== Matched: ftp, php ========================
php-pear-Net-FTP.noarch : Provides an OO interface to the PHP FTP
: functions plus some additions
....
But in both cases additional tags will help you find that information and,
of course, to find where the intersections are.
-sv