On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:33 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:11:43 +0000 (UTC) > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
emerge -S dig but that seems to take about 3 years longer than last time I used it, so there are various packages made to speed this up, such as: esearch -S dig -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
