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"emerge -s" foo.bar will search for foo.bar in the portage tree... |
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qpkg does even more sophisticated searches (man qpkg after an emerge |
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gentoolkit) |
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emerge kportage gives you a full graphical interface for searching, |
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browsing etc. |
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Hope this helps... -- Viktor |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:50:21AM -0800, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: |
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> Hi Everyone |
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> Im a newbie Gentoo user and managed to get my system up this weekend. While |
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> i was installing i came across a few things that could improve the usability |
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> of gentoo. I would like to help in the implementation of those features if i |
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> can. |
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> I had a question about portage first. I notice that on the web there is a |
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> complete list of packages that are available. Is there a feature in portage |
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> that would allow you to query that list and select which packages you want |
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> to install and then run emerge on it. |
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> If there isnt a feature like this, do you think it would be a useful |
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> featture? If so any pointers on how one might go about implementing it? |
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> Thanks |
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> Balaji |
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_______________________________________ |
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Viktor Lakics |
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email: viktor@××××××.net |
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