I have looked around have been unable to find a "master list of packages" similar to GNU's list of pacages (see http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/). With thousands of packages now a part of Gentoo I have no idea what many of them are... Generating this list can be automated by either adding a couple of switchs to emerge (such as --description and --full-discription) which would likely use the same code as the --search and --searchdesc switches. Another option would be to write a little script to extract the .spec description field from every package. In any event, It would be nice to read through the package discriptions on the doc's page (http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/docs.xml). If this list does reside someplace, then it would make a great entry to the FAQ. Best regards, EBo --
like http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml ?
> http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml Pretty much what I was looking for... I looked in the FAQ, Instal docs, etc. and did not see it. How about a question in the FAQ: Q: Is there a list discribing all gentoo supported packages? A: The "Gentoo Package List - index" can be found at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml The only problem I see here is that people will probably want to support multilingual... EBo --
After spending some time looking at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml, it works nicely for a detailed list, but is slow to navigate. What I originally was thining of writing was a brief discription like: Gentoo Package List - brief description Total number of packages available: 5356 app-admin/addpatches-0.2 patch management script app-admin/aide-0.9 AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a replacement for Tripwire ... The motivation behind the brief index is to quickly scan for interesting packages that I have never herd of ;-) Assuming that the index was script generated, let me know where it is and I'll see if I can write a brief index... EBo --
emerge -s . > package.list
