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Flag for `nix search` to include other meta attributes such as homepage #3868

Open lilyball opened 4 years ago

lilyball commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I often have to look up the homepages of software when searching, either because the description is too generic, or missing (e.g. with autogenerated packages), or because I want more info.

Describe the solution you'd like nix search should have flags that include additional meta properties, including homepage, longDescription, and licenses.

stale[bot] commented 3 years ago

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

lilyball commented 3 years ago

I still want this

stale[bot] commented 3 years ago

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lilyball commented 3 years ago

I still want this.

Also, having to periodically comment "I still want this" is very tedious.

stale[bot] commented 2 years ago

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

06kellyjac commented 2 years ago

Still important

superherointj commented 2 years ago

This could be useful as a replacement for this command line: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/make-tarball.nix#L67

Which could fix a repology batch issue that is causing imprecise stats and queries.

Related post: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/4463#issuecomment-762382017

Aleksanaa commented 8 months ago

Still important