Borderline sh-tpost here.

While "investigating packages" (read: "messing around") with apt, I seem to have discovered what is, on LMDE7 at least, the longest "Provides" sub-package list. Over 75000 characters.

$ /usr/bin/apt show librust-winapi-dev | grep '^Provides:' | wc -c

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

75650

The warning is irrelevant, but I left it in because it's a good thing to bear in mind.

It's also kind of funny because the only way you're going to be able to parse all of that output is with a tool of some kind.

If I count the commas with a suitable change to that pipeline, there are 1603, so it provides functionality for no less than 1604 other packages.

node-lodash-packages and node-babel7 are distant second and third with ~20000 and ~10000 characters (585 and 202 supported packages) respectively.

Ironically, none of these contain the phrase "kitchen sink".

Edit: Welp, I'm an idiot. After posting, I stepped away and realised that the name of the config file had to be the answer.

The game is literally called colorcode. Found and installed it and lo and behold, the game's author is someone called Dirk Laebish, which explains the directory name.

Ah well. I'll leave this here for posterity

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Looking through an old backup, I've found what appears to be the config file for some game or another at the path ~/.config/dirks/colorcode.conf, but searching the Internet (DDG and Google) turns up nothing for this, and searching apt, Synaptic (yes, I know they're basically the same thing) and even the online "wayback" part of Debian's package archive also gives no result.

The reason I think it's from a game is that the config file, despite its name, contains entries like GamesListMaxCnt and HighScoreHandling.

The only think I can think is that "dirks" is an acronym of some sort, which is why it's not showing up in past or present packages.

Based on the sort of games I usually try out and play, it's more likely to be a simple in-window puzzle or card game than a 3D game.

File dates seem to suggest 2021 as the last time I played / used it, whatever it was.

It would have been under some version of Linux Mint or LMDE, if the Debian commands didn't give that away.

Anyone have any idea what it might be?