>>"Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:38:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with
>> apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite
>> informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and
>> just use the regexp search in emacs or less).
Dave> What does that give you that `apt-cache search` doesn't?
ability to browse nearby (and possibly unrelated) packages,
ability to hit a + to select the package, go on to the next
search. apt-cache is nice, but dselect is a one stop shopping
experience.
I like the richness of information displayed by dselect -- and
I like the ordering (hit o, repeatedly) and the amount of information
(hit I, repeatedly) by dselect (aptitude, as far as I know, does not
reorder the listing).
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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