soundex rpm (was Re: POP3 Server)

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 05:55 PM 4/22/99 -0400, Chuck Mead wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Chuck Mead wrote:
>> >do rpm -q imapd.
>> 	rpm -q imap
>> 
>> "rpm -q imapd" will always result in "package imapd is not installed"
>> because RHL doesn't include an "imapd" package.

Does anyone else find that needing to spell the package correctly detracts
from the general helpfulness of RPM?  Or am I just an idiot?  I almost
always do:

rpm -qa | grep -i <whatever>

where whatever is a conservative pattern like maybe 'map' for imapd.  It
would be nice for me if RPM supported this directly.
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