Hi
  for some reason, I was trying to find out which package delivers 
/usr/lib/libgd.so. So, I tried doing something like

pkg search -r gd.so

and  then

pkg search -r SUNWgd

both of them returned with nothing. After searching through the archives 
at pkg-discuss alias, I guess it occurred to me to search as "pkg search 
-r SUNWgd*" and finally I was able to retrieve the package I was looking 
for.


However, I was hoping if some one could add a one liner message when the 
package search fails so that user knows exactly how to search for - 
something along the lines of -

pkg search -r SUNWgd

Unable to find any 'SUNWgd' package in the repository. If you are 
looking for packages matching SUNWgd, then you might want to search with 
SUNWgd* - or some thing along the lines.. 

Goes a long way towards usability..
cheers
sriram
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