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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:51:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2MJrFkfNDTuHyyH4muaqviPv6ULHDBx0Qv2FJm_2HTmJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110826T190301-342@post.gmane.org>

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/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-26 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2011-08-26 20:30 ` Bill Longman
2011-08-28 21:45   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-08-29  0:03     ` Dale
2011-08-29  1:34       ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-29  7:55         ` Dale
2011-08-29 14:55           ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-08-29 17:07       ` Per-Erik Westerberg

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