On 2003-12-09, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > > > > 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? > > --searchdesc tells emerge to search that spartan one-liner as well as just the > package name. Personally, I always go to the home-page of the package in > question. > I do that too, when I can find one. Sometimes finding the whereabouts of some small programs homepage can be a real PITA. But where do I find info on a Gentoo package maintainer?
Cheers, /HÖ -- /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux User: #189958 \\\ \\\ ~~ Gentoo 1.4 ~ Kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 ~ KDE 3.1.4 ~~ ///
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