Bug#589108: apt-cache: please search other fields

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi Reuben Thomas,

2010/7/15 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>:
> There’s no other way with apt-cache to search those fields (although
> it’d be nice to search Depends: too, which is already possible).

If you mean depends and rdepends here - these are not
limited to (Pre-)Depends per default -- only with --important they are.
So rdepends should do what you want, doesn't it?
Or did i misunderstand you here completely?

I don't think it is a good idea to extend the "search" this way,
search is by design limited as all apt commands are in some way.
Low dependency count comes with a cost at some point,
but we have a lot of tools out there much better than this simple
search, e.g have a look at axi-cache in apt-xapian-index.


Best regards,

David Kalnischkies