Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dig

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:33 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:11:43 +0000 (UTC)
> James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > > > Debian has such an index, and I often visit to see what software can do what.
> > > > Unless I've missed the wiki, there's really no place at all to read about
> > > > the various pacakges available on Gentoo.
> > 
> > > Read the archives. This is impractical because any given package may or
> > > may not install a particular file depending on what USE flags are
> > > applied to the compilation process.
> > 
> > I think you are missing the point, a list with a description of the packages
> > could be generated like Debian does. One would not need to list every 
> > possibility of compiled options but the general description would be good, 
> > along with some details of such features, such as dig as key components 
> > of the package.
> > 
> > Nick, check it out, it's a pretty cool list:
> > http://packages.debian.org/testing/
> > This listing and package/software categorization is one of the things
> > Debian does very well. The list is actually one of three for
> > Stable, Testing, and Unstable.
> > 
> > > And i doubt that there is a system in existence that has every package
> > > installed - for a start some packages block others.
> > 
> > I never said every, just many (tons) of the most commonly used packages.
> > I found dig and what package it belonged to looking on this system.

emerge -S dig

but that seems to take about 3 years longer than last time I used it, so
there are various packages made to speed this up, such as:

esearch -S dig
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>

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