On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
>
> According to my reading of the manual:
>
> aptitude search '~smain'
> and
> aptitude search '~smain|~scontrib|~snon-free'
>
> should give you the answers you seek, however, I seem to get 0 for the
> first and only 626 for the second, so my search-fu is failing me today.
Because "~s" ("?section()") doesn't correspond to main/contrib/non-free.