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On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote:
The [documentation][1] for `~S` says:
?narrow(filter, pattern), ~S filter pattern
This term “narrows” the search to package versions matching
filter. In particular, it matches any package version which
matches both filter and pattern. The
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote:
(Unfortunately, it says nothing about filters, let alone how they
differ from patterns.)
Yeah, that bit of the documentation is really confusing, and certainly
should be improved. I have to admit that I had to read it very carefully
for a while (and it's
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Kynn Jones wrote:
The [documentation][1] for `~S` says:
?narrow(filter, pattern), ~S filter pattern
This term “narrows” the search to package versions matching
filter. In particular, it
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