Bug#101980: regexp search should be a filter
Package: gnome-apt
Version: 0.3.10
Severity: wishlist
The search utility in gnome-apt just pops up a window with the matches (as
I'm sure you know). This doesn't make sense to me - it'd be much better if it
acted as a filter. For instance, the reason I personally wanted this
functionality is so I could, say, do a search for .*-dev packages and filter
out all "Not Installed" packages, so I have a list of installed -dev packages.
Then I remove all that I don't need any more. I usually do this manually with
apt-cache search and apt-get, but it'd be *much* *much* nicer to do it in
gnome-apt.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux Fookidla.org 2.4.0 #3 Sat Jan 6 19:54:50 EST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages gnome-apt depends on:
ii apt 0.5.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.5.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.10-3 Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library fo
pn libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2 Not found.
ii libart2 1.2.13-7 The Gnome canvas widget
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.1-0.3 The Audiofile Library
ii libc6 2.2.3-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb2 2:2.7.7-8 The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii libesd0 0.2.22-5 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-1.1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome32 1.2.13-7 The Gnome libraries
ii libgnomesupport0 1.2.13-7 The Gnome libraries (Support libra
ii libgnomeui32 1.2.13-7 The Gnome libraries (User Interfac
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-1 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010604 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libzvt2 1.2.13-7 The Gnome zvt (zterm) widget
ii xlibs 4.0.3-4 X Window System client libraries
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Chris Armstrong carmstro@twistedmatrix.com
http://twistedmatrix.com/~carmstro carmstro@dynup.net
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