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 --- Jan Matějka | Developer https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux GPG: A33E F5BC A9F6 DAFD 2021 6FB6 3EBF D45B EEB6 CA8B
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