[Aptitude-devel] Bug#535635: aptitude: "why" cannot use search patterns even though man page says it can

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


2012-01-04 07:32 jidanni at jidanni.org:
>>>>>> "DH" == Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> writes:
>DH> The separation between the syntax and descriptive parts may make this
>DH> difficult to read.
>Probably need to bang it home again in the text explicitly.

Banged it home thus:

  If one or more <pattern>s are present (in addition to the mandatory
  last argument, which should be a valid <package> name), then aptitude
  will begin its search at these patterns. That is, the first package in
  the chain it prints to explain why <package> is or is not installed,
  will be a package matching the pattern in question.


from the old:

  If one or more <pattern>s are present, then aptitude will begin its
  search at these patterns; that is, the first package in the chain it
  prints will be a package matching the pattern in question.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>