* Daniel Burrows <[email protected]> [2009-11-30 04:11 -0800]: > > 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.
whoops!
you're right:
there is indeed a whole lot of packages that mention this word in their
package description
(very unfortunate)
> > 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.
after a more in-depth search, it appears that 51 packages are returned by
"aptitude ~dpackage" while they don't have any reference with this word
when doing an "aptitude show <package_name>"
(compressed list in attachment)
here is some that you can check:
dhcp3-client
dhcp3-common
dhcp3-dev
dhcp3-server
empathy
empathy-dbg
exim4-base
exim4-config
exim4-daemon-heavy
exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg
exim4-daemon-light
exim4-daemon-light-dbg
exim4-dbg
exim4-dev
icedtea-gcjwebplugin
k3b-data
[...]
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Cyril Chaboisseau
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