Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:53:40PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast).
> >
> > I use:
> >
> > perl -n00e '/xml/i && print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
> >
> > (to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
>
> joey@gumdrop:~>apt-cache search xml
> libroxen-swarm - Swarning stars module for the Roxen Challenger web server
> cdindex-client - cdindex is intended to be the opensource replacement of
When apt came I drop my super-clever perl scripts to report what were new
to download... It's happening again... =)
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