Bug#35304: apt: It would be nice to be able to wildcard package arguments to apt-get

[nathaniel-smith@autobahn.org]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.3

It would be nice to be able to specify wildcards in the package name
on the apt-get command line, so that one could do, say,
 apt-get install gtk-engines-\*
to get all the different packaged gtk themes, or
 apt-get remove gnome*
if you decided you were fed up with gnome (this probably wouldn't
actually remove all gnome packages, but it would be a good start).

-- System Information
Debian Release: 
Kernel Version: Linux WyrmWeyr 2.2.4 #17 Wed Mar 24 13:44:58 PST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-0.1      GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.61-1      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)