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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:47:51AM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:

[...]

>> I thought it might be helpful for -A/--list-available to only list
>> packages that are really =E2=80=9Cavailable=E2=80=9D in the sense that t=
hey can be
>> built, to avoid deluding users.
>
> Both approaches make sense here. Maybe we need a flag? Maybe we could show
> all packages and add a column with "*" if the package is installable on t=
he
> current system? Maybe we could add another command?

Really? :-)  It sounds a bit overkill to me given that one can still use
-s and pipe it through recsel, or use =E2=80=98fold-packages=E2=80=99.

Ludo=E2=80=99.