On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:18, Jonathan Day wrote: > IMHO, the two problems are one and the same. Both need > access to a wide variety of packages. Neither > necessarily know the exact name of the packages they > need, but they do know what those packages need to do.
Gentoo has made a lot of progress on this problem by making portage searchable by regex. For example, this command will show you all the packages that have "vpn" or "pptp" in the title: # emerge --search "vpn|pptp" Gentoo also supports a much heaver search against package description using the --searchdesc option. Dylan _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
