On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Could we maybe hide library packages from apt searches by default?
This is going to have unintended consequences; for example, if we base it on Debian Section fields, library source packages that build a binary package containing tools, that are (incorrectly) put into the libs section, will not be found by users. > I think most users don't care about libraries in any language (be it > Perl, C, JS, Python, ...), but only care about software they > use directly. And developers that do care about libraries could pass > a flag to APT to say "yeah, please show me all packages that match > this". And maybe even indicated how many library packages were not > shown in the default search results? How would you propose to implement that? apt currently doesn't have enough metadata about packages to say if they are end-user tools or not, and it depends on the user which tools are acceptable. For example; some folks can deal with the command-line but the majority of humanity cannot, some folks dislike particular GUI toolkits, etc. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise