On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: [...] > but it's still very easy to find out and to configure them all. Essentially, > all the things that apt-get does portage does too - the only differences are > reverse dependencies (which will come to portage very soon) and USE flags > (which automate the configure options during compilation and somewhat unique > to portage). Really, the only way to know for sure if Gentoo is for you is to > try it on. One thing I miss in emerge is something similar to *apt-get show [package]* which lists a rather (often) detailed description of the package in question, similar to *rpm -qi [package]*. emerge has --searchdesc, but when I've used that I've never received any more info than the same spartan one-liners as I get when I use *emerge search [package]*. Is the information --searchdesc is supposed to print something that's not quite implemented yet?
Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux User: #189958 \\\ \\\ ~~ Gentoo 1.4 * Kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 * KDE 3.1.4 ~~ ///
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