From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:08:08 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20110826T190301-342@post.gmane.org> (raw)
Hello,
In /usr/portage/sci-chemistry, there are lots
of software offerings. My son is new to Gentoo
but now I let him go root and install packages.
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?
Is there some slick way to install all of the packages
in this dir? (drawing a blank --most-likely-TGIF-syndrome)
and then go down a list (index) and test which ones
he would want to keep?
suggestions are most welcome.
I'm looking for suggestions better than:
eix <package> one at a time....
James
next reply other threads:[~2011-08-26 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-26 17:08 James [this message]
2011-08-26 17:51 ` [gentoo-user] /usr/portage index? Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-26 18:51 ` Paul Hartman
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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