James schrieb am 20.03.2014 21:58:
> Hello,
> 
> I often go to /usr/portage/<target-dir>
> and browse the packages under a given
> category; for example  /usr/portage/media-sound
> 
> Rather that looking at the packages one at a time,
> It be nice to use (perhaps gentoolkit options therein)  syntax/options 
> to list all the packages in a (dir) group
> and the single line description, it batches?
> 
> Thus allowing quickbrowsing by category to decide which packages to install
> and test, based on quickly looking at the descriptions.
> The output should look something like this?
> 
> media-sound/SmarTagger
> Description:         Perl script for renaming and tagging mp3s
> <snip>
> media-sound/zynaddsubf
> Description:         ZynAddSubFX is an opensource software synthesizer.
> 
> 
> Suggestions and ideas, that already exist, are welcome;
> or do I need to hack something (ugly)?
> 


eix -cC category

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Regards
Daniel

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