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Re: aptitude search: What exactly does `~S` (aka `~narrow`) do?



On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote:
> (Unfortunately, it says nothing about "filters", let alone how they
> differ from "patterns".)

Yeah, that bit of the documentation is really confusing, and certainly
should be improved. I have to admit that I had to read it very carefully
for a while (and it's not the first time that I've done complicated
things with aptitude search terms, either.)

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