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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 4:26 pm    Post subject: emerge search? Reply with quote

is there any command like debians apt-cache search wich allows me to search the portage tree?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See this thread.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

why not just answer it, since its a pretty easy answer: emerge -s appname - will search the portage tree.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, yeah, that searches by package name. I thought a search by description might be more conclusive (as it also searches the package name).
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