Svein Harald Soleim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(07/16/2003 14:23)

>Yeah I agree, there is to little information, even debian's "apt-cache search" 
>get better information about packages then the "emerge --search" The thing 
>about apt-cache is that it also search through the information and not just 
>the package name. With a GUI interface there would also be easy to see what 
>version of a package in the tree. (even if its masked)

emerge -S or emerge --searchdesc will search the description of the packages.

Package descriptions are in the process of getting better as well.

Fred Van Andel
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