On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:53:40PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast).
> >
> > I use:
> >
> > perl -n00e '/xml/i && print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
> >
> > (to search for XML related
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast).
>
> I use:
>
> perl -n00e '/xml/i && print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
>
> (to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>apt-cache search xml
libroxen-swarm - S
> I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast).
I use:
perl -n00e '/xml/i && print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
(to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> What should be good is a new state saying that a package has been
> install by the dependencies check rather than by user direct selection.
> So, the package will stay as long as it resolved a dependency, but
> be remove when no more package who depends
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Laurent Martelli wrote:
> > "SB" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> SB> On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent
> SB> Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> very nice, but how will uninstallation
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:31PM +, David Coe wrote:
> Germano Leichsenring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > By the way, am I the only one grepping the "available" file??
>
> No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are
> two nice packages that make doing so even easier and
Germano Leichsenring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> By the way, am I the only one grepping the "available" file??
No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are
two nice packages that make doing so even easier and more useful:
*grep-dctrl* allows you to extract entire package chunks
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:11:10PM +0900, Germano Leichsenring wrote:
>
> By the way, am I the only one grepping the "available" file??
Nope. I too find it necessary when I don't want to connect to the
debian website. =)
> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> * "Laurent" == Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin> wrote:
Martin> * "Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin> wrote:
Laurent> It would also be nice to be able to select the packages on
> "SB" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent
SB> Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will you be
>> able to uninstall all the packages of a metapack
* "Laurent" == Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Laurent> Being able to select several packages by selecting a
Laurent> metapackage is very nice, but how will uninstallation be
Laurent> handled ? Will you be able to uninstall all the packages of a
Laurent> metapackage in one step ?
* "
> Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joe> How is this different from metapackages? After all, all you have
Joe> to do is look at the metapackage's dependencies itself to see
Joe> what it gives you.
At the beginning they're not much different; if you consider the
metapackages implementation
On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent Martelli
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will you be able
> to uninstall all the packages of a metapackage in one step ?
Certainly not:
- a package can be a member of several meta-p
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:27:25AM +0900, Germano Leichsenring wrote:
> Actually about these "metapackages", what about having a new field
> in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/available file, the "Keywords:" field?
> The keywords would be predefined, and it would be _much_ easier to
> find a package... now,
Actually about these "metapackages", what about having a new field
in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/available file, the "Keywords:" field?
The keywords would be predefined, and it would be _much_ easier to
find a package... now, if I don't know the name of a package, I have
to grep through the "available
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