El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > > Hi all, > > one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long > > description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show <package>'. > > > <snip> > > The questions would be: > > - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? > > - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the > > political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some > > LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds) > > > > Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and > thought it might be something for you: > > tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download) > > * Show descriptions of packages in a given portage category(-ies). > It may use <longdescription> from metadata.xml files. The output can be > coloured text (requires color package) or html with links towards > package homepages. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350215-highlight-tsportageview.html
This is almost exactly what i'been looking for (well not so much "looking" since i don't find it by myself ;) Thank you for being on_topic. -- Fernando Canizo - http://www.lugmen.org.ar/~conan/ snafu = Situation Normal All F%$*ed up -- [email protected] mailing list
