[MacPorts] #51664: Please add pseudo-portnames for some common programs

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#51664: Please add pseudo-portnames for some common programs
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  Reporter:  noloader@…   |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  base         |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:               |
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Comment (by noloader@…):

 Replying to [comment:4 noloader@…]:
 > Replying to [comment:2 ryandesign@…]:
 > > In the case of lcrypto, it does include the words "Bouncy Castle" in
 the long description, but not in the short description, and `port search`
 by default only searches the short description. You can get it to search
 the long description by passing a flag:
 > >
 > > {{{
 > > $ port search --long_description bouncy
 > > lcrypto @1.28 (java, crypto)
 > >     Java cryptographic library
 > > }}}
 > >
 > > but I admit this is not ideal. Maybe we should consider making `port
 search` also search the long description by default.
 >
 > Yes, agreed. It would probably be better if things "just worked" out of
 the box without requiring the user to do extra things.

 I was thinking about this earlier this evening. When I want to install a
 missing program, I usually type `{port|apt|yum|...} <program name>`. For
 example, `curl`,  `wget`, `make`, `gmake`, `gcc`, `g++`, `clang`,
 `clang++`, `gdb`, `lldb`, etc.

 Perhaps the first step should be to add the common binary name rather than
 the long description?

 I think its important to keep extraneous noise to a minimum. Generally
 speaking, I *don't* want "depends" and "reverse depends" information
 showing up in my search results because it pollutes the results to the
 points they are nearly unusable for some packages. I fear a long
 description will do that sort of thing (my apologies if I am wrong). If I
 want dependencies or reverse dependencies, then I'll perform the package
 query with the appropriate switch.

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