On 17 Oct 2007, at 1:02 pm, stephen mulcahy wrote:



Tim Cutts wrote:
I've been reading the aptitude documentation this morning, as it happens, and there's all sorts of useful stuff it can do above what apt-cache could manage, and it's solved a number of long- standing problems I've had... in particular its search functionality is *much* improved over apt-cache.

Interesting, I should rtfm. I've been using aptitude since migrating to etch but still find myself using apt-cache search over aptitude search because it seemed to give me more hits.

As do I.  But there's gold in them thar hills:

http://people.debian.org/~dburrows/aptitude-doc/en/ch02s03.html

Tim


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