On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:44:58PM +0100, Cyril Chaboisseau <[email protected]> was heard to say: > Looking for a package manager, I did the following search: > > aptitude search ~dpackage > > which gave me a very high (14636) number of packages which of course are > not related to my query
Well, yes, they are. You asked for packages whose description contains "package"; you got them. Unfortunately, a lot of packages say something like "documentation for this package is available in foo-doc" or "this package contains..." in their description. They aren't relevant to what you *wanted*, but then you'll have to tell aptitude more specifically what you want (maybe something like "?description(package *manager)"). > BTW, this "bug" is also present with apt which returns a lower number of > results: > > $ apt-cache search package|wc -l > 14558 Odd that it's less. As far as I can tell from a quick check, apt-cache doesn't search packages that are locally installed but not present in the archive. Daniel _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
