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 1E9o0b-00007c-MU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:05:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TI2bb5023863; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:02:37 GMT Received: from outmx009.isp.belgacom.be (outmx009.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7THwMQ8003710 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:58:22 GMT Received: from outmx009.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by outmx009.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7TI0JBb010972 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:00:19 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (199-8.241.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.241.8.199]) by outmx009.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7TI0EVR010947 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:00:14 +0200 (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <431369C6.3050600@sdf-eu.org> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:02:14 +0000 From: Jonas Geiregat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050822) 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> <430E5AEB.4090301@planet.nl> <20050826131210.GD31308@lugmen.org.ar> In-Reply-To: <20050826131210.GD31308@lugmen.org.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7TI2bbO023863 X-Archives-Salt: 9772dd69-d91f-4c55-b036-2caa59511370 X-Archives-Hash: da3b61edb7efa81e267861d6fddfef15 Fernando Canizo wrote: >El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me dec=EDa: > =20 > >>conan@lugmen.org.ar schreef: >> =20 >> >>>Hi all, >>> one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long >>>description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show '. >>> >>> =20 >>> >> >> =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 >>> >>Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and >>thought it might be something for you: >> >>tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download) >> >> * 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. >> >>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350215-highlight-tsportageview.htm= l >> =20 >> > >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 > To point is should this be included in emerge or not ? --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list