Bug#589108: apt-cache: please search other fields
On 23 July 2010 14:13, David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Reuben Thomas,
>
> 2010/7/15 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>:
>> There’s no other way with apt-cache to search those fields (although
>> it’d be nice to search Depends: too, which is already possible).
>
> If you mean depends and rdepends here - these are not
> limited to (Pre-)Depends per default -- only with --important they are.
> So rdepends should do what you want, doesn't it?
> Or did i misunderstand you here completely?
No, it seems that *I* misunderstood.
So, I can get what I want by going:
apt-cache search foo
apt-cache rdepends foo
It's a slight pity that I have to use two commands, but it's hardly a
glaring fault. Maybe worth providing a command for in wajig, or
similar.
I think this bug can be closed, thanks.
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