Re: Question about how "aptitude search" is used
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:13:30 -0700
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
Hi Daniel.
> How many readers of this list are using "aptitude search" as a
> subcommand in a script? Will you be impacted by this change? Will
> anyone else be adversely impacted despite not using it in a script?
I have always been annoyed with this exact problem, but I don't think
the solution you think about implementing (doing like apt-cache) is the
best way to go.
I would recommend trying to mimic something like the search function of
the FreeBSD ports system with specific options so that it is very easy
and intuitive to use and, at the same time, you can still make it
backward compatible.
Default behaviour:
>From FreeBSD:
$ make search name=foo
Aptitude:
$ aptitude search foo
OR newly added feature
$ aptitude search name=foo
>From FreeBSD:
$ make search key=bar
Wich searches both names and descriptions.
$ aptitude search key=bar
Anyway, just a thought.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
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