Nathaniel Echols
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:58:14 -0800
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Martin Costabel <costa...@wanadoo.fr>wrote: > Second, a feature request: when I run a command like "fink install >> fontconfig", if the package is not found could it please print something >> more helpful than "no package found for specification 'fontconfig'"? There >> is obviously a package somewhere that does have fontconfig in the name >> (Google turned up several, in fact, and I can't tell the difference). Even >> just accepting wildcards (e.g. "fink install fontconfig*") the way apt-get >> does would be helpful. >> > > Try "fink list fontconfig". It works the way you want. > There are good reasons that "fink install" requires a precise package name. Thanks, I wasn't aware of the "list" option. In that case, could "fink install X" maybe suggest running "fink list X", since it's currently not very intuitive what to do next?
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