Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)

[Adam Klein <aklein@parsley.cortland.com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:31PM +0000, David Coe wrote:
> Germano Leichsenring <germano@jedi.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp> writes:
> 
> > By the way, am I the only one grepping the "available" file??
> 
> No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are
> two nice packages that make doing so even easier and more useful:
> 
> *grep-dctrl* allows you to extract entire package chunks with a 
> grep-like syntax.
> 
> *sgrep* allows you to do arbitrarily complicated extracts (also
> from other "structured" text files).

I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast).

Adam
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