severity 246144 wishlist tags 246144 wontfix thanks On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:15:05PM +0300, Gintautas Miliauskas wrote:
> apt-cache should validate commandline arguments prior to parsing the > package database: > > [~]$ time apt-cache foo > E: Invalid operation foo > > real 0m2.283s > user 0m2.084s > sys 0m0.103s > > (strace reveals that it indeed reads the database) > > I know this is nitpicking, but it shouldn't be hard to fix. As a matter of fact, it is not simple to fix, and this case doesn't seem worth optimizing. -- - mdz
