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Hi Geert,

Quoting Geert Stappers (2025-10-26 15:13:38)
> Why this wish for helix metapackes is nicely expressed
> at https://www.reddit.com/r/HelixEditor/comments/1ofv4ua/comment/nlg61qk/
> 
> Quoting from that posting:
> 
>   I still thought it wasn't in Debian
>   because searching for Helix doesn't show anything usually.

I wonder what approach to searching was used (but will admit that I
haven't bothered to read the referenced reddit thread).

Each of `apt search  helix` and `apt-cache search helix` and
`axi-cache search helix` has the hx package as a result.

I am not convinced that metapackages is a good instrument for
discoverability - indexing tools that take package descriptions into
account is a far better instrument for that purpose.

Please also see https://bugs.debian.org/1024683#38 and
https://bugs.debian.org/1024683#65 for my responses to arbuably related
requests.

 - Jonas

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