[Slapt-get-user] Slapt-get produces duplicate output when searching packages

[Hiram Abiff]

On 4/1/06, Jason Woodward <woodwardj at jaos.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Hiram,


Hi Jason,

--search actually searches the name, version, location, and description of
> the packages.  So
> your search term may show up in various places.  Since the argument to
> --search is a regular
> expression, you can be explicit in what you want matched.  For example, to
> search for any
> packages beginning with alsa, use the caret (^) modifier to specify
> beginning of string.
> --search ^alsa will give you the finer grained results you are looking
> for.


I see, I 've tried using wildcards to refine the output, but it seems that
slapt-get
doesn't respond to *, for example trying --search alsa* outputs many many
other packages apart those that are alsa related.

HTH,
> jason


it does.

Regards,

Hiram.

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