On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:33:28 (-0500), bw wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to > > include > > packages' versions? > > well, see that's the thing. In debian, kernel packagenames include > the arch and ver in them. This wouldn't work for mc for instance or other > packages. > > The criticism about the different apt commands is a good one. I think the > idea is to merge some of them into just 'apt' but so far all we have is > show and search, shortcuts for apt-cache.
s/merge/include/ The reason some of us continue to use apt-foo and would like continued support for them is that they are stable in what they do and what they output. This is not meant as a criticism of apt/aptitude, but because it's difficult to script a moving target. Cheers, David.