Re: Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017, Mark Summerfield wrote: > ISTM that subcategories or some other finer-grained classification > would be a real help. You're probably looking for debtags. For example, if I wanted something with a shell interface which was implemented in C++: aptitude search '?tag(implemented

Re: Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Oct 2017 at 18:51:48 +, Mark Summerfield wrote: > When I first started using Debian, it had a little over 1000 packages. > Today, it has over 51000. Yet there are very few categories, so while > searching is quite easy, browsing is often no longer practical. For > example, there are