[plug] The Debian Experience

[bob]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 02:00, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > apt-cache search blah 
> 
> Unfortunately, the fact that this isn't obvious to a new debian user 
> when they fire up aptitude/dselect/whatever is an issue, and indicates a 
> need (IMHO) for better integration of search features.
 
Agree. It seems a little strange to have the facility available as
apt-cache search but not available in some of the more advanced package
utils. It would be nice if it were implemented as a two level search
facility, level 1 does just file names and level 2 does the whole
shooting match.

-- 
bob
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