On 8/24/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you > cant change the settings. >
S**t, look at this. I'm using gmail and not top posting. Just how stupid are you that you can't move the cursor to the bottom of the message? > Also if you are looking for a lazy man's way of getting a package description > try `emerge > -s packagename` and it prints out a lot of information as well > as a short description of the > package. I have never seen a long description > such as those used to build Debian > packages anywhere in portage and don't really think it would be useful > anyhow. So try > emerge -s and if you need more info go to the packae's website. That would be > my > advice. Oh, and emerge -s works off the metadata so you dint need an Internet > connection. How completely pointless. The OP knows about emerge -s and he knows he can look at the package's website. Even worse, you're wrong. emerge -s doesn't look in metadata.xml, it gets the information from the ebuild. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
