On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:43, Helgi �rn Helgason wrote: > 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?
--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. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
