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

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

Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-29 Thread Mark Summerfield
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 around 600 packages classified under 'Python Programming Language',