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Re: show searched packages including versions

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On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:10:03 -0600, David Wright wrote:

> On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:33:28 (-0500), bw wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to include
> > > packages' versions?
> > 
> > well, see that's the thing.  In debian, kernel packagenames include 
> > the arch and ver in them.  This wouldn't work for mc for instance or other 
> > packages.
> > 
> > The criticism about the different apt commands is a good one.  I think the 
> > idea is to merge some of them into just 'apt' but so far all we have is 
> > show and search, shortcuts for apt-cache.
> 
> s/merge/include/

apt also includes depends, rdepends and policy in its repertoire.

> The reason some of us continue to use apt-foo and would like
> continued support for them is that they are stable in what
> they do and what they output.

apt serves the needs of many users but it is very unlikely that support
for apt-foo would diminish.

> This is not meant as a criticism of apt/aptitude, but because
> it's difficult to script a moving target.

I've never used aptitude, but its searching abilities have been promoted
to be superior to apt-cache. Whether those capabilities could be rolled
into apt (or whether it is desirable to do so) I do not know.

-- 
Brian.

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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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