On 08/26/2011 10:08 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > > In /usr/portage/sci-chemistry, there are lots > of software offerings. My son is new to Gentoo > but now I let him go root and install packages. > > Does Gentoo maintain an online index with brief > description of each so one can make a guess as to > which packages might be useful to him? > > Is there some slick way to install all of the packages > in this dir? (drawing a blank --most-likely-TGIF-syndrome) > > and then go down a list (index) and test which ones > he would want to keep?
My fave: eix -c -C x11-wm or in your case: eix -c -C sci-chemistry little -c gives a compact listing for you.
