Re: [Fwd: Re: Please, would specify in the global packages list, from which group each package is related.]
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:02:26PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Please, would specify in the global packages list, from which group
> each package is related.
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:39:21 +0100
> From: Guillaume Tessier <g_tessier@orange.fr>
> To: David Mandelberg <mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org>
> David Mandelberg wrote:
> >Guillaume Tessier wrote:
[...]
>
> As the debian packages repository is rather enormous, i think i could be
> great to specify in the global package list :
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/allpackages
>
> and when you click onto the cdrecord hyperlink, to get a ligne on the
> cdrecord web page (http://packages.debian.org/testing/otherosfs/cdrecord)
> "cdrecord belongs to the Other OS's and Filesystems direcrory."
There is already such a statement at the top of the page:
"Section: otherosfs"
> Then it's quick to find & download this soft with aptitude... (i admit i
> could just apt-get it...).
What I don't understand is why you don't use a simple search when you
know the package name? aptitude has a search functionality, packages.d.o
has one...
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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