Re: Package naming rules

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> BTW, it should be fairly easy to teach grep to pick out the package
> you are interested in with or without the "-" problem.  Just use
> some \-[0-9] type code(s)

It won't work on all packages:  devel/bison-A2.6-11.deb

There is no general solution.  I tried for months.  The only way is to
use the "Packages" file

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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