Bug 7480

Summary:	Adding short description to ebuilds
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Eric Jacoboni <jaco>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eric Jacoboni 2002-09-04 16:43:45 UTC

Following BSD, i think that adding a short descr to ebuilds could be helpful to
know what a particular ebuild is for. With the tremendous increasing number of
ebuilds, it will be difficult to just use their names.

To understand why i mean, look at:

<http://www.openbsd.org/3.1_packages/i386/zsh-zftp-4.0.4.tgz-long.html>

This description could be in a descr file, in the ebuild directory.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-04 19:32:03 UTC

did you try `emerge -s <pkg>` ?

it gives you a short blurb and a homepage to get more info ...

root@vapier quakeforge # emerge -s zsh
Searching...
[ Results for search key : zsh ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  app-shells/zsh
      Latest version Available: 4.0.6-r1
      Latest version Installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Homepage: www.zsh.org/
      Description: UNIX Shell similar to the Korn shell