verifying comps

[Bill Nottingham]

Christian Iseli (Christian.Iseli at licr.org) said: 
> > > The best we could do is check every package is reacheable directly or
> > > indirectly from comps  
> > 
> > I don't think that's really appropriate - not everything makes sense
> > to be there. 'search' is a much better metaphor.
> 
> Could you elaborate a bit please ?  What do you mean by 'search' ?  And
> a metaphor for what ?

If I want to find 'a perl module that deals with timezones', searching
is better than scrolling through perl-*.

If I want to find 'a library for accessing tiff files', searching is
better than scrolling through *-devel.

comps just doesn't scale to all 7600 packages... it's *too much data*.

Bill