Quoting Jérémy Lal (2025-07-26 19:48:22) > This is a translation of part of the original message (which is in french, > see at the bottom). > I find this interesting, as it is a discussion between users that shows > that it is, actually, useful. > > > One of the reasons I love Debian is all the metadata in packages and the > > aptitude command that allows you to query all of it. > > If you look in the stdout of `apt show thunderbird`, you'll see > > Tag: interface::graphical, interface::x11, mail::user-agent, role::dummy, > > role::program, suite::mozilla, uitoolkit::gtk, works-with::mail > > So you can use aptitude to find out which packages have identical tags: > > $ aptitude search '~G mail::user-agent ~G graphical' > > p balsa - e-mail client for GNOME > > p claws-mail - Fast, lightweight and user-friendly GTK based email client > > p evolution - groupware suite with mail client and organizer > > p exmh - extensible X user interface for MH mail > > p gnumail.app - Mail client for GNUstep > > p kmail - full featured graphical email client > > p kontact - integrated application for personal information management > > p sylpheed - Light weight e-mail client with GTK+ > > p thunderbird - mail/news client with RSS, chat and integrated spam > > filter support Yes, aptitude is one of the (very few) consumers of debtags and has a very powerful but also relatively complex to use filtering system. For package searching I prefer to install apt-xapian-index and then use axi-cache. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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