Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1
Severity: normal
Please create a search shorthand that has the semantics of the search
functionality in apt-cache. Empirically, it seems that the following is true:
"apt-cache search kde camera" is equivalent to the following:
"aptitude search '(~nkde|~dkde)(~ncamera|~ncamera)'"
The aptitude form is much longer while the semantics of this type of search
are very useful. In the above example, I am looking for any packages that have
the words kde or camera in the name or description. It would be really nice to
have a nice and simple shorthand to do this kind of search with aptitude.
Maybe the following syntax would work:
aptitude cache-search kde camera
Or maybe a new ~ search pattern should be introduced.
I find myself using apt-cache to do searches even though I like the aptitude
search output much better.
Thanks for your consideration of this request,
wt
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Nov 20 2008 05:11:32
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090228
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff6f3ff000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0x00007f8f66ed3000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f8f66c88000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f8f66a83000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f8f667b0000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f8f66537000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f8f661cb000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8f65fb4000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f8f65d99000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f8f65a8d000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8f6580a000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f8f655f3000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8f652a0000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f8f6509d000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8f64e99000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8f67194000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.26 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090228-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.10-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
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