On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:12:31PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"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.
Sorry, I was unclear... I was wondering what advantages grepping/emacsing/lessing /var/lib/dpkg/available has over apt-cache. dselect definitely has some nice features, no argument there. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
