Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes:
> > Debian has such an index, and I often visit to see what software can do > > what. > > Unless I've missed the wiki, there's really no place at all to read about > > the various pacakges available on Gentoo. > Read the archives. This is impractical because any given package may or > may not install a particular file depending on what USE flags are > applied to the compilation process. I think you are missing the point, a list with a description of the packages could be generated like Debian does. One would not need to list every possibility of compiled options but the general description would be good, along with some details of such features, such as dig as key components of the package. Nick, check it out, it's a pretty cool list: http://packages.debian.org/testing/ This listing and package/software categorization is one of the things Debian does very well. The list is actually one of three for Stable, Testing, and Unstable. > And i doubt that there is a system in existence that has every package > installed - for a start some packages block others. I never said every, just many (tons) of the most commonly used packages. I found dig and what package it belonged to looking on this system. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
