On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:49:59AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-31, John Hasler penned: > > Not true. Perl is in the base system. You have to stick to basic > > Perl, though. No libraries. > > I'm confused. I opened up aptitude, went to installed packages->base, > and I see no perl there. Now, reading your comment, I used > `dpkg -p perl-base` and sure enough, it says Section: base. > > So, um, is there a way to list all packages that are in a particular > section? My aptitude test must have been naive, but I'm not sure why. > Other than my just-now "reverse-engineered" approach of trying the url > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/ , that is.
Try grep-dctrl. For what it's worth, though, the base section is pretty much obsolete as a specification of what's in base; the actual definition nowadays is "whatever debootstrap installs". Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
