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Re: show searched packages including versions

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: show searched packages including versions
Date	2018-01-04 04:30 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>Worse, I should have searched efoX-eSr, to make it clear one shouldn't need to
>know a package's complete and exact basename including case

That part's easy--the case is lower...

>How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to include
>packages' versions?

Well, that command doesn't show the version, and it only does a prefix 
search, not a substring search. It has a very specific intended purpose, 
and this doesn't really seem like the right use case.

Mike Stone

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show searched packages including versions Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-03 21:30 +0100
  Re: show searched packages including versions bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-01-03 22:00 +0100
    Re: show searched packages including versions Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-03 22:20 +0100
      Re: show searched packages including versions Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-03 22:30 +0100
        Re: show searched packages including versions Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-01-03 23:00 +0100
          Re: show searched packages including versions Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-04 00:10 +0100
        Re: show searched packages including versions Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-03 23:00 +0100
      Re: show searched packages including versions Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-03 22:30 +0100
        Re: show searched packages including versions Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-01-03 23:10 +0100
      Re: show searched packages including versions bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-01-04 00:30 +0100
        Re: show searched packages including versions Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-04 01:20 +0100
          Re: show searched packages including versions bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-01-04 01:40 +0100
            Re: show searched packages including versions David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-04 02:20 +0100
              Re: show searched packages including versions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-01-04 21:00 +0100
          Re: show searched packages including versions Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-01-04 04:30 +0100
  Re: show searched packages including versions Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-01-04 00:10 +0100

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