Re: rsync

[John Seebach <jseebach@example.com>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:19:24PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>     Simon> simon@example.com ~
>     >> apt-cache search "standard C library"
> 
> Ah, but does it have
> 
> 	    apt-cache search --stuff-that-might-be-useful
> 
> ??  That's what I meant by not knowing what you're looking for.
> Potato has 2500 packages, woody is now over 6000.  Sure, you can
> probably hit 90% of them with sufficiently broad keywords ("web",
> "edit", "lib"), but that still leaves 600 packages whose function you
> never imagined.

Well, if I can't imagine it, there's probably a pretty good chance I
don't need it. But if I need, say, a word processor, then Simon's
method ought to be pretty useful. I still think it beats tools like
dselect or console-apt where you can only search on the package's
name, not on the description.

Of course, that's assuming that the package maintainers' descriptions
include useful / intuitive keywords, which may or may not be a safe
assumption.

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