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From: david mattatall <davidsmind@linuxbasics.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge search
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On May 24, 2002 02:34 pm, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> emerge search seems to only search the name of the ebuild. Is there
> currently any way to also search the description? And if not is there
> any reason not to implement this? Doing something like 'emerge search
> irc' does not return BitchX as an example. And something like icc
> 'Intel's cc compiler' might be hard to search for since you may
> not know the Gentoo agreed upon name of icc and simply search for intel=
=2E

hrmm, don't take any offence to this but bitchx is in /usr/portage/net-ir=
c.=20
and what if some one does a description search for "a"?