How to determine if a package is a meta-package from the command line?
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How can I determine if a package is a meta-package from the command line, possibly via apt-get, aptitude or apt-cache?
I have tried:
apt-cache show texlive-full
apt-cache showpkg texlive-full
but the only way I can tell this package is meta is by reading the "en-description" field.
Is there a more automatic way of doing this, that will give me a yes/no response, or at least have a field such as then "en-description" dedicated to this?
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