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Add a way to get information about a package before installing it

Open andbleo opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

What problem are you trying to solve?

When I run devbox search blah, I get a list of packages matching that query with a list of available versions. If I am unsure what the exact package I am looking for is named, I find I need to look on https://search.nixos.org/packages to verify I am installing the correct package.

What solution would you like?

I can see a few possibilities:

  1. Add a one line blurb to the results of devbox search
    • Maybe with an added flag to add more context in the search results if adding more information would be a breaking change?
  2. Add a link to the package on https://search.nixos.org/packages in the devbox search results
  3. Add a new subcommand that returns information about a package
    • I thought that devbox info was that command, but that isn't available for devbox global and also only appears to work for packages that are already installed

Alternatives you've considered

No response

andbleo avatar Sep 14 '24 06:09 andbleo