Why I use Debian. Apt pros & cons

[Brad Campbell]

> 
> I have everything I need from Debian; there are a few things which are NOT in
> The main thing I find lacking in apt (so far) is a way to find a package. ie; I
> know roughly something is named "blah", how do I find the package? You can use
> Debian's Website package search, you can grep /var/state/apt/lists, but there's
> no "apt search blat" feature (yet!) from the command line.
> 

That is the only thing I use dselect for
/ for a search by name of package name or description..

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