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I know they are kind of just wrapping aptitude but it's frustrating I can't just wildcard for things. It's a package manager not a development framework, why would regex and wildcard not be enough for anyone?

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We could reinstate wildcards (but not regexes, they are unsafe as their magic characters overlap with valid package names, so g++ can mean the package g++, the package g+, or any package matching the regex g+).

I feel like once people got used to patterns, that will be sufficient though, and the error reporting gets nicer.

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