[Aptitude-devel] Bug#710751: "why" should work on patterns

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 2 June 2013 11:13,  <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> The latter should work just like
> # aptitude why bluetooth bluez bluez-compat libbluetooth3
> i   bluetooth     Suggests bluez-cups
> p   bluez-cups    Depends  cups
> p   cups          Suggests hplip
> p   hplip         Suggests python-notify
> i   python-notify Depends  libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0)
> i   libgtk2.0-0   Suggests gvfs
> i A gvfs          Suggests gvfs-backends
> p   gvfs-backends Depends  libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91)
>

Hello

What is the function of the non-final arguments (‘bluetooth’ …
‘bluez-compat’) doing in this example?