Vcpkg: list of packages

[VikingExplorer]

Is there any way to get a live list of packages, other than CLI vcpkg search?

Not only is CLI inconvenient, the description is cut off.

This shouldn't be that hard since presumably, these packages are in the database somewhere. Name of package should be a link to the project.

[ras0219-msft]

Thanks for pointing this out!

There are two ways that might improve the situation for you immediately. One is to pass --x-full-desc to search, which stop cutting off the description (but they can be _very_ long, so this will ruin the table formatting). The other is to simply do a findstr or grep inside the ports\ directory; all the information for package X is gathered via ports\X\CONTROL.

[VikingExplorer]

This is now available from: https://repology.org/metapackages/