Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dig

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

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.

packages.gentoo.org

> 
> 
> James
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