retitle 481185 document deprecation of --print-avail thanks On Wed, 14 May 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > > When i want to look at the info of an installed pakage, i use the -p flag. > > If i accidently give the flag in the wrong case ei. -P the package is purged > > from my system. > > Not working as root unless needed will avoid that.
I can only concur. > > I suggest the -p (info) flag be moved to another letter of the alphabet. I > > suggest the -I (upper case i) flag be used to get information about a > > package. Meaning, extend the functionality of the -I flag to search the > > package cache when no package is found in the current working directory. > > Sorry, but -I is already taken (passed over to dpkg-deb), and scripts > may use the -p option, so taking it away is not really an option > either. You may want to set up an alias for dpkg -P or train yourself > to use long options only (both bash and zsh will aid you to complete > them). Furthermore /var/lib/dpkg/available is not a very useful source of information about available packages unless one is a regular user of dselect. "apt-cache show <package>" should be the reflex nowadays. Maybe we should update the documentation to mention that this command is really deprecated... that would be the proper response to this bug report IMO. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
