From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qx0a2-0003mZ-8S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:52:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55C1221C181; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F4421C0A0 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.148] (helo=smtp16.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qx0Ys-0007xj-V9 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:51:22 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp16.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qx0Yr-0004fc-6n for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:51:21 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC84C08 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:51:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id asXfFpgWUYQT for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:51:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA20EB6C for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:51:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index? Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:51:19 +0200 Message-ID: <3354747.Bau1mb2Zlh@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Qx0Yr-0004fc-6n X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.69, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.73, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.50) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9d337e8bb03cb142b4e0a7c80a521904 On Friday, August 26, 2011 05:08:08 PM James wrote: > Hello, > > > In /usr/portage/sci-chemistry, there are lots > of software offerings. My son is new to Gentoo > but now I let him go root and install packages. > > Does Gentoo maintain an online index with brief > description of each so one can make a guess as to > which packages might be useful to him? > > Is there some slick way to install all of the packages > in this dir? (drawing a blank --most-likely-TGIF-syndrome) > > and then go down a list (index) and test which ones > he would want to keep? > > suggestions are most welcome. > > I'm looking for suggestions better than: > eix one at a time.... Got a few ideas: You can have "eix" give details for all the packages in a "group" in one go though. Try: # eix sci-chemistry/ (Yes, use a training slash "/" ) To install all the packages in "sci-chemistry/" you can do the following: # emerge -va `eix sci-chemistry/ --only-names` Be prepared to have to unmask a lot of packages. To get a list of all the sci-chemistry/ packages installed (eg. still to check and/or already selected to keep: # eix -I --only-names sci-chemistry/ Hope these help with what you're trying to do. -- Joost