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 4.50) id 1EcaLF-0007SX-By for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:21:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAH3Kn3v000733; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:20:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAH3GGIB016079 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:16:16 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcaFz-00088v-KA for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:16:15 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EcaCh-0004lG-5b for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:12:51 +0100 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:12:51 +0100 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:12:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Dig Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20051116170423.GA27366@princeton.edu> <20051117124636.27FA.NICK@rout.co.nz> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: d9397e15-c2a9-49c6-bdc4-b1740c2cd10d X-Archives-Hash: 991d37ba25bc858ec3fe8cce71af77d9 Nick Rout rout.co.nz> writes: > > Debian has such an index, and I often visit to see what software can do what. > > Unless I've missed the wiki, there's really no place at all to read about > > the various pacakges available on Gentoo. > Read the archives. This is impractical because any given package may or > may not install a particular file depending on what USE flags are > applied to the compilation process. I think you are missing the point, a list with a description of the packages could be generated like Debian does. One would not need to list every possibility of compiled options but the general description would be good, along with some details of such features, such as dig as key components of the package. Nick, check it out, it's a pretty cool list: http://packages.debian.org/testing/ This listing and package/software categorization is one of the things Debian does very well. The list is actually one of three for Stable, Testing, and Unstable. > And i doubt that there is a system in existence that has every package > installed - for a start some packages block others. I never said every, just many (tons) of the most commonly used packages. I found dig and what package it belonged to looking on this system. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list