Bug 28135 – FAQ? was: package discriptions

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description John (EBo) David 2003-09-07 16:24:09 UTC]

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 --

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-09-07 16:31:09 UTC]

like http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml ?

[Comment 2 John (EBo) David 2003-09-11 11:03:33 UTC]

> 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 -- 
 

[Comment 3 John (EBo) David 2003-09-13 07:25:59 UTC]

 
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 -- 
 

[Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-09-14 22:38:38 UTC]

emerge -s . > package.list