Bundles simplify the handling of sets of related modules. The package contains a session manager and a cache manager. There is no status retained between sessions. The session manager keeps track of what has been fetched, built and installed in the current session. The cache manager keeps track of the disk space occupied by the make processes and deletes excess space according to a simple FIFO mechanism.
All methods provided are accessible in a programmer style and in an interactive shell style.
Once you are on the command line, type 'h' and the rest should be self-explanatory. The most common uses of the interactive modes are Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules There are corresponding one-letter commands a , b , d , and m for each of the four categories and another, i for any of the mentioned four. Each of the four entities is implemented as a class with slightly differing methods for displaying an object. The parser recognizes a regular expression only if you enclose it between two slashes. The principle is that the number of found objects influences how an item is displayed.