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diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.yo b/doc/apt-get.8.yo index 393f9ec6f..ac2cbab9a 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.yo +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.yo @@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system. If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX regex and it is applied to all package names in the database. Any matches are then installed (or -removed). +removed). Note that matching is done by substring so 'lo*' matches 'how-lo' +and 'lowest'. If this is undesired prefix with a '^' character. dit(bf(remove)) bf(remove) is identical to bf(install) except that packages are removed |