conda packages (can) have a summary and description in their metadata. I'd like to read those somehow using conda, to help decide what packages to install. However, the most information I can find is from conda search -i, e.g.
$ conda search -i optionsfactory
Loading channels: done
optionsfactory 1.0.3 py_0
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file name : optionsfactory-1.0.3-py_0.tar.bz2
name : optionsfactory
version : 1.0.3
build : py_0
build number: 0
size : 22 KB
license : BSD-3-Clause
subdir : noarch
url : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch/optionsfactory-1.0.3-py_0.tar.bz2
md5 : f8db4dd5600ad38b5f6ecae5f6f7d2ad
timestamp : 2020-05-13 08:04:25 UTC
dependencies:
- python >=3.6
which isn't helpful for finding out what the package actually does.