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 1E7wxo-0008C9-Uw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:14:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OFBkjR028890; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:11:46 GMT Received: from outmx008.isp.belgacom.be (outmx008.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OF2o0Q017464 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:02:50 GMT Received: from outmx008.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by outmx008.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7OF3nNU029350 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:03:49 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from [192.168.0.103] (215.40-200-80.adsl.skynet.be [80.200.40.215]) by outmx008.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7OF3gI5029273 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:03:43 +0200 (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <430C8C4E.1060404@sdf-eu.org> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:03:42 +0200 From: Jonas Geiregat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? References: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> <20050823224756.667089f1@snowdrop.home> <558b73fb05082320393c29effc@mail.gmail.com> <430C1848.7020609@gmail.com> <430C1B43.9040108@sdf-eu.org> <20050824110803.GA4532@lugmen.org.ar> <558b73fb050824070378013489@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb050824070378013489@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 27bb015c-25ee-4c87-82dc-691b7e01fefc X-Archives-Hash: b3373fa51de5a594988ae6fff39bd911 Michael Crute wrote: > First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and > you cant change the settings. > > Also if you are looking for a lazy man's way of getting a package > description try `emerge -s packagename` and it prints out a lot of > information as well as a short description of the package. I have > never seen a long description such as those used to build Debian > packages anywhere in portage and don't really think it would be useful > anyhow. So try emerge -s and if you need more info go to the packae's > website. That would be my advice. Oh, and emerge -s works off the > metadata so you dint need an Internet connection. > Please stay on topic , that's for all of you ! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list