From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8eWJ-0007tV-99 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:45:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7QDbWF4011063; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:37:32 GMT Received: from muriandre.homelinux.org (201-254-47-128.speedy.com.ar [201.254.47.128] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7QDPsic009392 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:25:55 GMT Received: from conan by muriandre.homelinux.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1E8e0A-0002tN-Jb for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:12:10 -0300 Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:12:10 -0300 From: Fernando Canizo To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? Message-ID: <20050826131210.GD31308@lugmen.org.ar> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> <430E5AEB.4090301@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430E5AEB.4090301@planet.nl> X-GNU-Propaganda: In a world without walls, who needs Gates and Windows? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7QDbWFN011063 X-Archives-Salt: 2812bbaa-924b-427e-8c4c-6253405f6f29 X-Archives-Hash: 3df06e850a52791dbdcc5352d36d2272 El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me dec=EDa: > conan@lugmen.org.ar schreef: > > Hi all, > > one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long > > description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show '. > >=20 > > > The questions would be: > > - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? > > - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the > > political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some > > LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds) > >=20 >=20 > Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and > thought it might be something for you: >=20 > tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download) >=20 > * Show descriptions of packages in a given portage category(-ies). > It may use from metadata.xml files. The output can be > coloured text (requires color package) or html with links towards > package homepages. >=20 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350215-highlight-tsportageview.htm= l This is almost exactly what i'been looking for (well not so much "looking" since i don't find it by myself ;) Thank you for being on_topic. --=20 Fernando Canizo - http://www.lugmen.org.ar/~conan/ snafu =3D Situation Normal All F%$*ed up --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list