Bug 1039

Summary:	correction for man emerge
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matthew Kennedy <mbkennedy>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mbkennedy
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthew Kennedy 2002-03-09 21:49:25 UTC

Howdy,

The man page for emerge wrongly states that 

   emerge --search "*"
or 
   emerge --search ""

will return a full list of available packages. The above is wrong. The command
to do this should instead be:

   emerge --search ".*"