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

[Jonas Geiregat]

Michael Crute wrote:

> First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and
> you cant change the settings.
>
> 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.
>
Please stay on topic , that's for all of you !
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