[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Thu Feb 10 16:23:21 UTC 2005


David Damerell wrote:

> Well, yes; because Debian really desperately needs a better way to
>
>find what you actually want in that list of 8,000 packages, and so
>manifestly all those rarely-used packages contribute to the
>awkwardness of that list.
>  
>
apt-cache search --names-only <foo>

Failing that, try a little grep.
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