Re: So what do all these packages do?

[Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, David Hodnett wrote:

> In other words, we still have to look at each and every package?
> No one's actually written a perl script to generate a summary
> listing from each package, and combined them into one convenient
> web page or FAQ?

man ports(7)

cd /usr/ports
make print-index | more

Not as verbose as the DESCR files, but easier to read than the INDEX
file. You can also do things like `make search key=database`, which
will turn up everything in ./databases, yes, but will also turn up
everything that depends on something in ./databases, like various GUI
front-ends or plugins.
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| Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>                2002.06.05/21:26:32 PDT |
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