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Bug 77897 - Way to browse all applications by category (possibly emerge search 'category/*')
Summary: Way to browse all applications by category (possibly emerge search 'category/*')
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2005-01-13 14:07 UTC by Adam
Modified: 2005-01-13 14:41 UTC (History)
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Description Adam 2005-01-13 14:07:29 UTC 
The categories of applications (e.g. sys-apps) can't easily be browsed to see what are all the applications in that category.  You can browse the directory structure in /usr/portage, but that only allows you to browse names, not descriptions or other info.

My suggestion is to modify emerge so that "emerge search 'sys-apps/*'" shows info for all programs in the sys-apps category.  Currently the "search" command doesn't allow categories, and it seems to be the only way to show all the info for that package.

A graphical emerge front-end would also be good, but I still think the above suggestion would still be worthwhile for the people who prefer a command line interface.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-13 14:32:26 UTC 
emerge -s @category
Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-13 14:33:52 UTC 
Re: GUI

emerge porthole
Comment 3 Adam 2005-01-13 14:41:42 UTC 
Sorry about that, I didn't know about the @ ability of the search command.  But it doesn't seem to be documented in the man page.  Maybe it should be?