Re: What shows what an uninstalled package does?
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:12:31PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Dave" == Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> writes:
>
> Dave> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:38:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with
> >> apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite
> >> informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and
> >> just use the regexp search in emacs or less).
>
> Dave> What does that give you that `apt-cache search` doesn't?
>
> ability to browse nearby (and possibly unrelated) packages,
> ability to hit a + to select the package, go on to the next
> search. apt-cache is nice, but dselect is a one stop shopping
> experience.
Sorry, I was unclear... I was wondering what advantages
grepping/emacsing/lessing /var/lib/dpkg/available has over apt-cache.
dselect definitely has some nice features, no argument there.
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