How can we figure out if a package is core or not?

[Javier Lopez]

On 11/10/14 at 01:42am, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Thomas Ward:
> >Running `apt-cache
> >show pff-tools` actually shows the information even though the package
> >is not installed.
> 
> Yes, but it doesn't show if there's a task related with the package.
> So it doesn't help figuring out if the package is core or not.

I use this alias:

alias core.package='sh -c '\''apt-cache show "${1}" | grep -i task >/dev/null && echo yes || echo no'\'' -'
https://github.com/chilicuil/dotfiles/blob/master/.aliases#L33

Like this:

$ core.package firefox
yes
$ core.package conky
no

Hope it helps,

Cheers

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