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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:24:31 +0100
From: David Morgan <david.morgan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?
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On 8/24/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you
> cant change the settings.
>
S**t, look at this. I'm using gmail and not top posting.
Just how stupid are you that you can't move the cursor to the bottom
of the message?
> 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.
How completely pointless. The OP knows about emerge -s and he knows he
can look at the package's website.
Even worse, you're wrong. emerge -s doesn't look in metadata.xml, it
gets the information from the ebuild.
Dave
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