severity 312110 wishlist thanks On Sunday 05 June 2005 08:52 am, Marc Haber wrote: > $ sudo aptitude markauto '.' > Couldn't find package ".", and more than 40 > packages contain "." in their name. > (no action results) > > A quick look into the source code shows that the 40 is hard-coded. It > should be at least configurable.
Do you really want aptitude to spew out a list of 2846 suggestions (the count on my system of packages whose name contains '.') for you to try? 40 was picked because that's more than enough to fill most terminal screens; if you have more than that, it seems likely that you passed a package name that was so erroneous that it will match a significant proportion of the database. For instance, aptitude install l uola aptitude install io etc. I can make this value configurable, it won't hurt, but the fact that you want to increase it suggests to me that you're trying to abuse the command to do something that would be better done using "search". The message you get from the "install" command is just a suggestion about ways you could correct the command you typed. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | Something must be done. | | This is something. | | Therefore this must be done. | | -- The Bushista Syllogism | \------ Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org -------/
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