On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:37:54PM -0300, David Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 05:28:02PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:47:12AM -0300, David Maxwell wrote:
> > > A management tool could give you the same 'use regex to identify a useful
> > > package' function.
> > 
> > Will never be as flexible as find, grep, etc.
> 
> No, but it doesn't have to be _as_ flexible, it would just need to be able
> to produce similar results for the reasonable use-cases.
> 
> pkg_detail -A | grep...
> pkg_detail -a databases | grep...
> pkg_detail -Am | grep DEPENDS
> pkg_detail -Ap | grep '\$NetBSD\$'
> ...

Ok, maybe. But I still think that removing some directory level for
common files which have a reasonable prefix (e.g. patch-xx) is good enouth.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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