On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:43:30PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:22:21 -0600 > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] Is there a switch I'm not aware of that causes a search for, say, > > php to return just the actual php packages (i.e., php3 and php4) > > instead of all the hundreds of phpgroupware-* and other packages that > > use php? > > From 'man apt-cache' > > --names-only, -n > Only search on the package names, not the long descriptions. > Configuration Item: APT::Cache::NamesOnly.
The "phpgroupware-*" names still match "php". Granted, that (or the grep that I normally use instead) takes it down from 314 matches to 144, but that's still a lot more than just the actual php packages. -- Windows Vista must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like "display quality too high" - Peter Gutmann, "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]