From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I find new packages?
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:46:51 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090804T193003-66@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090804084642.GA10499@crowfix.com
<felix <at> crowfix.com> writes:
> There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and
> updated packages.
Well I'm not sure about that mechanism. What I do, when I want new software
that is already in a ebuild is this:
look into the dir that contains all software in a given
category /usr/portage/<category>
Then use eix to give me a one line description so I can see if
it's plausible what I'm after. Then just read up on the software
and decide to install or not. Searching dirs by category
usually gets me what I want....
hth,
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-04 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-04 8:46 [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages? felix
2009-08-04 8:52 ` Jacob Todd
2009-08-04 14:35 ` felix
2009-08-04 14:50 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-08-04 14:51 ` Mark Knecht
2009-08-04 12:49 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-08-04 14:27 ` felix
2009-08-04 14:44 ` Gregory SACRE
2009-08-04 19:46 ` James [this message]
2009-08-04 19:59 ` [gentoo-user] " felix
2009-08-04 20:03 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-05 7:42 ` Dale
2009-08-04 19:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2009-08-05 11:36 ` Urs Schuetz
2009-08-06 13:47 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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