Seems like when I first started using Gentoo there was a feature to
search the online package database. It was really handy. What happened
to that feature?

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Big Daddy Butthead wrote:

> Seems like when I first started using Gentoo there was a feature to
> search the online package database. It was really handy. What happened
> to that feature?
>
I don't know about that feature, I generally search on google for the
package and restrict the domain to www.gentoo.org and include the phrase
package listing like this:

spamassassin site:gentoo.org package listing
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Big Daddy Butthead wrote:

> Seems like when I first started using Gentoo there was a
> feature to
> search the online package database. It was really handy.
> What happened to that feature?
>


Try emerge -s Filename or partial filename

if list too big try

emerge -s filename | less

so you can scroll the list if doing from terminal

HTH

Yeric (eric.heaton2@btinternet.com) wrote on Saturday 30 August 2003 11:18
in alt.os.linux.gentoo:
> Try emerge -s Filename or partial filename

and emerge -S keyword to also search the descriptions
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