Why I use Debian. Apt pros & cons

[Trevor Phillips]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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..

Same here! And then I break out of dselect quickly before it does any huge
system changes trying to be helpful. ^_^

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