Re: Misclassification of packages; "libs" and "doc" sections
James Antill <james@and.org> writes:
> Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org> writes:
> > * Jason Henry Parker <jasonp@uq.net.au> [001011 09:54]:
> > > I find it much easier to ftp to the binary-i386 directory of my
> > > mirror, and perform searches like
> > > ftp> ls */*catan*
> This == "apt-cache --name-only search catan"
And if apt isn't available? If I'm searching for a version of some
package not in the distribution I have mentioned in my sources.list?
If I'm away from my debian boxes and want to get the orig.tar.gz of
some package?
These are all situations where suggesting apt-cache is useless, and
searching by category should be useful. But it's not useful.
> > Why don't you use apt-get for this? Sections _are_ useful for those that
> > do not know what the name of the package is, etc.
As I said, I find they just get in the way if I try to use them, and
it's much easier to ls with a wildcard if apt isn't available.
I don't know of any way to search by section with apt-cache; which
version are you running?
jason
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