Re: New package with old name
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:36:14 -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:09:40PM -0400, sean finney <seanius@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > just an idea...
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:03:19AM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote:
> > > I was thinking about something like that (a bit long, maybe a bit
> > > difficult to find for those looking for something called "cil", but I
> > > guess there are not many other options...
> >
> > you could still put "cil" in the short/long descriptions, such that if
> > someone did "apt-cache search cil" it would show up...
>
> I thought of that, but there's so much junk if you do that search now
> that it probably wouldn't help:
>
> jester:~> aptitude search '~dcil'|wc -l
> 332
but
apt-cache search '\<cil\>'
shows only a few .NET libraries and cl-cil
aptitude search '~d\<cil\>'
shows nothing.
I try to use more precise regexes when faced with overwhelming
answers. Others probably do it too.
--
Michał Politowski
Talking has been known to lead to communication if practised carelessly.
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