On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:39:06 +1300
Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 25 March 2014 03:55, Damien Levac <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > A lot of people already replied to this question: package search.
> >
> > A trivial example, a user want to know all terminals available in
> > portage. Of course he could try a `emerge --searchdesc terminal`,
> > but then he would get anything mentioning terminal in the
> > description: which would probably include a lot of "terminal
> > applications" which are not terminals themselves...
> >
> > `emerge --search terminal` just doesn't cut it as "konsole"
> > wouldn't be a result but is a terminal emulator...
> >
> > On the other hand, terminals are spread through many categories
> > (gnome-terminal in gnome-base & konsole in kde-base to name the most
> > obvious example).
> >
> > Thus tags are a nice way for user to find the applications they
> > want.
> >
> 
> Because looking at this example and the results of `eix -cS
> terminal`, I see lots of things that may also be ambiguously tagged
> "terminal" due to being a terminal based application.
> 
> Thus, either "terminal-emulator" or "terminal-app" or similar tags
> seem necessary.
> 
> emerge --search tag:terminal-app tag:jabber-client  ( or similar )
> should thus result in net-im/mcabber

You do this by searching for intersection of tags.

terminal ∩ jabber ∩ client

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