[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Martin A. Brooks]

David Damerell wrote:

> I think you may assume that I know how to use grep.


Well, you did say "Normally, yes, I end up grepping 
/var/lib/dpkg/available."

Unreasonable assumption on my part I guess.

>There is a problem with finding useful but unknown packages in
>Debian. Back in the early days you just read the whole package list
>and away you went. Pretending it ain't so won't make it go away
>  
>

By definition, packages availble in Debian are not unknown. "apt-cache 
search" lets you search by concept.

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