On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 06:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It seems so silly but the trouble is that these words are so common that > > any sort of searching turns up hundreds of things I'm not looking for. > > > > Did I say hundreds? I mean millions. > > > > I'm looking for the old Unix "spell" and "look" command line tools. What > > gentoo package has these? > > I'm not answering this question, but rather expounding on it. > > In may cases a user may know what command (or file) they want but don't > have any idea what category or package gentoo has placed it's provider.
In this example, the "millions" of things actually are 52 and if you look through the list of "hits" most of those are language packs for aspell and ispell. This should provide a clue that aspell and ispell are spelling utilities. Furthermore, the description for aspell says something like "replacement for ispell" which tells you that ispell is the older (less preferred?) package. So this is not a good example of a hard-to-find package. The OP could have found packages by using esearch or emerge search. There's also the Gentoo packages online db at packages.gentoo.org. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
