Re: Misclassification of packages; "libs" and "doc" sections
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"
> > It saves a fair bit of time, because sections typically just get in
> > the way. Joey is right.
>
> 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.
This == "apt-cache search blah" ... or at least it's much quicker
than getting the sections wrong a couple of times.
--
James Antill -- james@and.org
"If we can't keep this sort of thing out of the kernel, we might as well
pack it up and go run Solaris." -- Larry McVoy.
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