On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Martin Costabel <costa...@wanadoo.fr>wrote:
> Second, a feature request: when I run a command like "fink install
>> fontconfig", if the package is not found could it please print something
>> more helpful than "no package found for specification 'fontconfig'"? There
>> is obviously a package somewhere that does have fontconfig in the name
>> (Google turned up several, in fact, and I can't tell the difference). Even
>> just accepting wildcards (e.g. "fink install fontconfig*") the way apt-get
>> does would be helpful.
>>
>
> Try "fink list fontconfig". It works the way you want.
> There are good reasons that "fink install" requires a precise package name.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the "list" option. In that case, could "fink
install X" maybe suggest running "fink list X", since it's currently not
very intuitive what to do next?
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