+ Peter Miller (Sun, 31 May 2009 11:49:37 +1000):
> Wouldn't it be great if when you typed
> apt-get build-deps gcc
> instead of saying
> E: Invalid operation build-deps
> it said something more useful, like
> E: Invalid operation build-deps, did you mean build-dep instead?
I guess that's would be doable, since it'd involve calculating distances
to all registered commands, which are only a handful. However:
> This goes for packages as well. Wouldn't it be great if
> apt-get install dns-utils
> instead of saying
> E: Couldn't find package dns-utils
> it said something more useful, like
> E: Couldn't find package dns-utils, did you mean dnsutils instead?
I can't see how it'd work here, at least without the help of some
on-disk structure, since we're talking about a space of 25,000 packages.
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