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conan@××××××××××.ar schreef: |
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> Hi all, |
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> one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long |
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> description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show <package>'. |
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> |
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<snip> |
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> The questions would be: |
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> - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? |
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> - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the |
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> political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some |
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> LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds) |
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> |
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Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and |
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thought it might be something for you: |
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tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download) |
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* Show descriptions of packages in a given portage category(-ies). |
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It may use <longdescription> from metadata.xml files. The output can be |
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coloured text (requires color package) or html with links towards |
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package homepages. |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350215-highlight-tsportageview.html |
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Holly |
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