During unrelated development I noticed that some ebuild authors have neglected to change the DESCRIPTION field from the skeleton file: $ emerge -S "This is a sample skeleton ebuild file" Searching... [ Results for search key : This is a sample skeleton ebuild file ] [ Applications found : 4 ] * app-admin/reportmagic [ Masked ] Latest version available: 2.21 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 440 kB Homepage: http://www.reportmagic.org Description: This is a sample skeleton ebuild file License: Artistic * app-sci/gt-itm [ Masked ] Latest version available: 19961004 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 658 kB Homepage: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Ellen.Zegura/graphs.html http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-topogen.html#gt-itm Description: This is a sample skeleton ebuild file License: as-is BSD * sys-apps/discover-data Latest version available: 2.2003.02.05 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 221 kB Homepage: http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/ Description: This is a sample skeleton ebuild file License: GPL-2 * sys-apps/irqbalance [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.08 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 10 kB Homepage: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/ Description: This is a sample skeleton ebuild file License: OSL-1.1 My suggestions: app-admin/reportmagic: "Report Magic makes usable statistics from your web site log file analysis." app-sci/gt-itm "A collection of routines to generate and analyze graphs using a wide variety of models for internetwork topology." sys-apps/discover-data "Discover is a set of libraries and utilities for gathering and reporting information about a system's hardware." sys-apps/irqbalance "Distribute hardware interrupts across processors on a multiprocessor system." These descriptions have been gathered from the respective websites or from the included documentation. I take no responsibility for the validity of these descriptions, but they sure beat the current ones :-)
Doh! I must have been in a hurry. sys-apps/discover-data is obviously the *data* for sys-apps/discover. The corrected description should probably be this: sys-apps/discover-data "Data used by sys-apps/discover."
discover-1.x had the right DESCRIPTION ... not sure how i screwed it up for 2.x
I fixed the last three. Thanks for the bug report.
