[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
> Hi all,
>       one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
> description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show <package>'.
> 
<snip>
> The questions would be:
> - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough?
> - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the
>   political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some
>   LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds)
> 

Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and
thought it might be something for you:

tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download)

    * Show descriptions of packages in a given portage category(-ies).
It may use <longdescription> from metadata.xml files. The output can be
coloured text (requires color package) or html with links towards
package homepages.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350215-highlight-tsportageview.html

Holly
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