Bug#325299: apt: --names-only doesn't just search names
retitle 325299 [doc] Documentation for --names-only could be clearer
thanks
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:42:01AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.40.1
> Severity: normal
>
> The man page says:
>
> and if --names-only is given then the long description is not searched,
> only the package name is.
>
> But:
>
> griffon:~$ apt-cache search --names-only ming
> apache-common - support files for all Apache webservers
> [...]
It should say that it searches the names (plural).
Package: apache-common
[...]
Provides: libapache-mod-roaming, libapache-mod-auth-sys, libapache-mod-put
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- mdz
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