Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 372401
Pirut does not sort its search results
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:00:40 EST
Description of problem: This is a regression with respect to Fedora 7 pirut, where search results were sorted alphabetically. Makes navigating through the results a bit harder than needed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pirut-1.3.25-2.fc8.noarch yum-3.2.7-1.fc8.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start pirut 2. search for something that returns several results, say, pulseaudio Actual results: Search results are distributed randomly Expected results: Search results are sorted alphabetically
The results are ordered by relevance rather than alphabetically now just like the output of yum search
I preferred the old behaviour. Can we have an option to switch between two?
Adding options isn't the answer. Insert obligatory link to Havoc's long ago blog post here :-) Right now, leaving open so that I can think on it rather than doing kneejerk reaction changes.
(In reply to comment #1) > The results are ordered by relevance rather than alphabetically now just like > the output of yum search It's certainly good to know there was a method to pirut's madness. :) With the ordering by relevence, I usually find myself reading through the entire list of packages, because I see multiple versions of packages. For someone who didn't know how pirut was deciding to sort packages, it meant that if I found a package that looked like it might be what I need, I wasn't confident that it was the most up to date package in the repository until I went ahead and finished looking at the list to make sure there weren't any newer packages. This might be unnecessary effort if pirut is sorting newer versions towards the top of the list, but on the surface I couldn't tell if it was sorting things at all. Sorting by name wouldn't give as intelligent results as relevence, but I'd personally find it more comfortable to use because the rules behind the sorting are more obvious.
This isn't going to get changed at this point as pirut is pretty much entirely EOL'd and only getting critical fixes for older releases. In Fedora 9 and later, any such concerns can be filed against PackageKit/gnome-packagekit.