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 4.50) id 1Ecag5-0000UM-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:43:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAH3fncS017599; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:41:49 GMT Received: from dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (loadbalancer1.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAH3ZqJV014901 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:35:54 GMT Received-SPF: none Received: from rout.dyndns.org (60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [60.234.144.216]) by dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (8.13.2/8.13.2/Debian-1) with SMTP id jAH3aG0b021747 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:36:17 +1300 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:33:42 +1300 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dig Message-Id: <20051117163342.05c2b488.nick@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: References: <20051116170423.GA27366@princeton.edu> <20051117124636.27FA.NICK@rout.co.nz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: ff460925-3cb8-49a7-b75b-2d7bc26980cf X-Archives-Hash: a87067ae77e5c43c7868385e16494fc4 On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:11:43 +0000 (UTC) James wrote: > Nick Rout 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 > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list