On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 12:43:13 +0000, [email protected] wrote: >> apt list ~e^science >> >> how can i see the details of what is being searched and how > > man apt-patterns > > ?source-package(REGEX), ~eREGEX > Selects versions where the source package name matches the specified > regular expression. > > man 7 regex > > '^' (matching the null string at the beginning of a line) >
i've read that several times i don't see anything that tells me the details of how apt is performing the search
