Re: FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE amd64, Perl, and URI: : Escape

David Christensen wrote on 2/25/22 7:39 PM:
> On 2/25/22 15:31, Dan Langille wrote:
>
>>>>>>> It appears that David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> said:
>>>>>>>> Is there a CLI tool, WWW page, etc., that lets me list and/or 
>>>>>>>> search the
>>>>>>>> contents of FreeBSD packages?
>
>> two suggestions:
>>
>> This search term on most search engines: site:freshports.org URI::Escape

Sorry, I did not know the 'correct' answer at the time.

It should be clear *why* they fail: the package descriptions do not 
mention the critical keywords ("URI::Escape").

FreshPorts does attempt to pull the pkg-plist information if possible. 
It did for this port. I suppose we could go a step farther and figure 
out how to determine that "URI/Escape.pm"== "URI::Escape" and save that 
as a search term. That would help your search considerably.
>
>
> Using DuckDuckGo -- three pages of results, none of which are the 
> correct answer (p5-URI).
>
>
>> Search for URI::Escape in Long Description 
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> Four results, none of which are the correct answer (p5-URI):
>
> p5-Any-URI-Escape
> p5-URI-Escape-JavaScript
> p5-URI-Escape-XS
> p5-URI-ParseSearchString
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>
>> or Short Description at https://www.freshports.org/search.php
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>
> Two results, none of which are the correct answer (p5-URI):
>
> p5-Any-URI-Escape
> p5-URI-Escape-XS
>
>
>> source: I wrote FreshPorts
>>
>> I usually use the first one when searching for stuff like that.
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> David
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