Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

[Michael Crute]

Hey buddy go troll on somebody else's thread.

-Mike

On 8/24/05, David Morgan <david.morgan@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/24/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com> 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
>
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>


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