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You know bud, read some rules, be polite. |
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"If you have nothing good to say, say NOTHING!". |
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Do you really THINK before replying? Have you added something to the |
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question? Care more about WHAT people write than WHERE is it written, |
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you'll be more happy. Comments like yours are good for old usenet |
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users, and pointless today. |
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On 8/24/05, David Morgan <david.morgan@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 8/24/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you |
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> > cant change the settings. |
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> > |
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> S**t, look at this. I'm using gmail and not top posting. |
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> Just how stupid are you that you can't move the cursor to the bottom |
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> of the message? |
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> > 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 |
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> > packages anywhere in portage and don't really think it would be useful anyhow. So try |
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> > emerge -s and if you need more info go to the packae's website. That would be my |
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> > advice. Oh, and emerge -s works off the metadata so you dint need an Internet |
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> > connection. |
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> How completely pointless. The OP knows about emerge -s and he knows he |
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> can look at the package's website. |
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> Even worse, you're wrong. emerge -s doesn't look in metadata.xml, it |
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> gets the information from the ebuild. |
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> Dave |
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To the point, I never really had to read long descs provided at the |
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website to have a good glance on what the program is, the fact that |
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the desc showed in emerge -s is short doesn't make it less clear, in |
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fact, it has all that matters. People searching with emerge usually |
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KNOW what they're looking for. |
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On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to have a long description of the |
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app somewhere available offline (like the universal CD, for example). |
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I'm pretty sure they can use the same system of the website to provide |
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this offline (but is it worth the trouble?). |
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