Re: Announcing pkg_search

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, December 4, 2007 7:05 pm, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Matthias Schmidt wrote:

>    That'd be bad if you ever want to use it in a script though.
>
>    And a program that changes its output in unexpected ways?  Yuck.
> (Imagine if "ls" did that...)

It'd be relatively easy to add a switch to force "always list" behavior,
which is less common than the need to get detailed info.  Plus, it's
pretty easy to tell which behavior you would get depending on if a version
number is included.