Re: Deprecating regex/fnmatch fallback for package arguments, and 1.9.6 highlights

[Andrej Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

Hi,

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 13:01, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
> Does it really make sense to deprecate regexps for apt-cache search?
> In that case, I think you're very unlikely to want a literal match.

I can see why, but still I’m not sure I agree as this doesn’t match
e.g. my own use: I (almost?) never used apt-cache search with an
intent to use patterns, I always wanted a literal match of the words I
gave it, in any order

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Cheers,
  Andrej