* [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?
@ 2011-08-26 17:08 James
2011-08-26 17:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
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From: James @ 2011-08-26 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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 <package> one at a time....
James
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* Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?
2011-08-26 17:08 [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index? James
@ 2011-08-26 17:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-26 18:51 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-26 20:30 ` Bill Longman
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From: Joost Roeleveld @ 2011-08-26 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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 <package> 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
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* Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?
2011-08-26 17:08 [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index? James
2011-08-26 17:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
@ 2011-08-26 18:51 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-26 20:30 ` Bill Longman
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From: Paul Hartman @ 2011-08-26 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:08 PM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 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?
Yep, http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ is the main site.
And there is a third-party site: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/
And for searching/browsing layman overlays there is: http://gpo.zugaina.org/
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* Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?
2011-08-26 17:08 [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index? James
2011-08-26 17:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-26 18:51 ` Paul Hartman
@ 2011-08-26 20:30 ` Bill Longman
2011-08-28 21:45 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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From: Bill Longman @ 2011-08-26 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 08/26/2011 10:08 AM, 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?
My fave:
eix -c -C x11-wm
or in your case:
eix -c -C sci-chemistry
little -c gives a compact listing for you.
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* [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage index?
2011-08-26 20:30 ` Bill Longman
@ 2011-08-28 21:45 ` James
2011-08-29 0:03 ` Dale
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From: James @ 2011-08-28 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Bill Longman <bill.longman <at> gmail.com> writes:
> eix -c -C sci-chemistry
Ok, thanks everyone! I was very tired Friday
and I appreciate
the suggestions of sites and syntax....
Lots of chemistry based software for my son to play with....
It's just a darn shame kids today do not get the
cool chemistry sets of yore.....
James
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage index?
2011-08-28 21:45 ` [gentoo-user] " James
@ 2011-08-29 0:03 ` Dale
2011-08-29 1:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-29 17:07 ` Per-Erik Westerberg
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From: Dale @ 2011-08-29 0:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
James wrote:
> Bill Longman<bill.longman<at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>
>> eix -c -C sci-chemistry
>>
>
> Ok, thanks everyone! I was very tired Friday
> and I appreciate
> the suggestions of sites and syntax....
>
> Lots of chemistry based software for my son to play with....
>
> It's just a darn shame kids today do not get the
> cool chemistry sets of yore.....
>
>
> James
>
>
Nowadays, if you mix vinegar and baking soda, you are accused of making
a bomb. They called it fun 20 or 30 years ago. lol
I still want to know what Spencer puts in the camera film thingys and
makes it pop off. It was liquid and what looked like a pill or
something. Erin said he was getting some distance on them tho. o_O
Dale
:-) :-)
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage index?
2011-08-29 0:03 ` Dale
@ 2011-08-29 1:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-29 7:55 ` Dale
2011-08-29 17:07 ` Per-Erik Westerberg
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From: Alex Schuster @ 2011-08-29 1:34 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Dale writes:
> Nowadays, if you mix vinegar and baking soda, you are accused of making
> a bomb. They called it fun 20 or 30 years ago. lol
>
> I still want to know what Spencer puts in the camera film thingys and
> makes it pop off. It was liquid and what looked like a pill or
> something. Erin said he was getting some distance on them tho. o_O
Um... Diet Coke and Mentos?
Wonko
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage index?
2011-08-29 1:34 ` Alex Schuster
@ 2011-08-29 7:55 ` Dale
2011-08-29 14:55 ` Sebastian Beßler
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From: Dale @ 2011-08-29 7:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>
>> Nowadays, if you mix vinegar and baking soda, you are accused of making
>> a bomb. They called it fun 20 or 30 years ago. lol
>>
>> I still want to know what Spencer puts in the camera film thingys and
>> makes it pop off. It was liquid and what looked like a pill or
>> something. Erin said he was getting some distance on them tho. o_O
>>
> Um... Diet Coke and Mentos?
>
> Wonko
>
>
>
I don't think so. I guess it is possible tho. You know those little
containers that you put 35mm film in, that is what he puts it in. It
does foam up like mentos and coke but it didn't look like that tho. It
takes about 5 to 10 seconds for it to pop. Mentos and coke is pretty
much instant. I saw that on Mythbusters. Dang that is cool. O_O
Mayne I can google it. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage index?
2011-08-29 0:03 ` Dale
2011-08-29 1:34 ` Alex Schuster
@ 2011-08-29 17:07 ` Per-Erik Westerberg
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From: Per-Erik Westerberg @ 2011-08-29 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
sön 2011-08-28 klockan 19:03 -0500 skrev Dale:
> James wrote:
> > Bill Longman<bill.longman<at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >> eix -c -C sci-chemistry
> >>
> >
> > Ok, thanks everyone! I was very tired Friday
> > and I appreciate
> > the suggestions of sites and syntax....
> >
> > Lots of chemistry based software for my son to play with....
> >
> > It's just a darn shame kids today do not get the
> > cool chemistry sets of yore.....
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> >
>
> Nowadays, if you mix vinegar and baking soda, you are accused of making
> a bomb. They called it fun 20 or 30 years ago. lol
>
> I still want to know what Spencer puts in the camera film thingys and
> makes it pop off. It was liquid and what looked like a pill or
> something. Erin said he was getting some distance on them tho. o_O
>
Any headache or fever reducing medicine that dissolves in water would do
I guess. A friend of mine had a cold and brought some anti-fever, non
recipe, medicine in a plastic tube which was flat pills that you put in
water to dissolve. We were at a hotel in a hot and humid country,
Dominican Republic, and we woke up in the middle of the night when a
loud "pop" sounded. The same was repeated the next night. In the
mornings we couldn't understand why the lid of the tube was thrown on
the floor and it was put on again and it took a couple of days for us to
realize what had happened. Some moisture had gotten inside the tube and
the pills where starting to dissolve which raised the pressure in the
tube which then made the lid to pop off. ;)
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
/ P-E
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