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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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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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