[Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

[Axel Beckert]

Hi again,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> The main reason is that ~A does (as most of aptitude's patterns)
> substring matching,
[…]
> * aptitude's ~A pattern matches substrings of the Archive value in the
>   Release file.

Sven is of course right, and it's regular expression matching and not
(only) substring matching. See
https://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04s01.html

		Regards, Axel
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