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 1E7wHI-0004Ol-Oi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:30:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OESTbn008436; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:28:29 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OENSBb009841 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:23:31 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h31so51627wxd for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:24:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Z0S5Nut1ewezi98mmEi/MtC3Jr5r2vNGJlvIboBV+2Z0Imwdwup7E0PK/fLyZP1RbzC6Kw/WtBtc81TouPQuh99UQkk5e5NocGtK1udWofoRdmMOZMecH/mr4xHoVfLeuIMEFFcKf/v+yRL/KrKyPSm9TAblyFy0j1hDdylYa7Y= Received: by 10.70.96.4 with SMTP id t4mr8861wxb; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.117.16 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:24:31 +0100 From: David Morgan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? In-Reply-To: <558b73fb050824070378013489@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline 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> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7OENSBb009841 X-Archives-Salt: 1b5cd2f2-a699-4b88-a32c-7a54aab6f75b X-Archives-Hash: 6501de9c476e68437c7f1b54686eae53 On 8/24/05, Michael Crute 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list