[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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list