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raptor
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 Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:18 pm Post subject: emerge --desc pkg-name |
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hi again :")
I don't see in emerge help a way to query for descrption of the package ... m'I wrong ? |
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AJM
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean you would like to have a description of a certain package displayed? - analogous to
If so, just do | Code: | | emerge search pkgname |
and it will print whatever description is available.
If you don't know the actual name of a package but you know keywords like "editor" you can | Code: | | emerge search -S editor |
and you get a listing of all packages with editor in their name or description - a wee bit like | Code: | | rpm -qai|grep editor |
Of course, if you're not from an RPM background, then not much of the above will be much help  |
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raptor
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 4:05 pm Post subject: thanx |
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| u are da man ... thanx :") |
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