On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:32:45PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) > >> Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies. It's > >> hardly a node-specific problem that debian package searches output > >> large amount of packages that are not useful unless you happen to be a > >> programmer. > > > > ...and I agree that the issue is not specific to node-* packages, but I > > find it is quite common there. Quite likely due to recent inclusion of > > lots of packages, prepared semi-automated - as Philip pointed out very > > well. > Could we maybe hide library packages from apt searches by default?
> 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? After some thinking, instead of hiding better to group by: $ apt search gif [ GUI applicatoins ] gimp mirage ... [ CLI applications ] gif2png gnuift imagemagick .. [ programming libraries ] libgif libsdl-image python-pil .. [ documentation ] libgif-doc ... $ I think the data for grouping can be theoretically mined from debtags. Riku