On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:59:09 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, "what the heck > is that"? > > So I look at the ebuild file... > > msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION > /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 > .5.ebuild > DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg" > > Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, > so I looked in the emerge manpage and found --info, but that tells me > everything *except* the DESCRIPTION string. :) > > equery doesn't seem to dump this either.. > > So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :)
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