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Bug 1039 - correction for man emerge
Summary: correction for man emerge
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-03-09 21:49 UTC by Matthew Kennedy
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Matthew Kennedy 2002-03-09 21:49:25 UTC 
Howdy,

The man page for emerge wrongly states that 

   emerge --search "*"
or 
   emerge --search ""

will return a full list of available packages. The above is wrong. The command
to do this should instead be:

   emerge --search ".*"