Gentoo Questions

Brett I. Holcomb bholcomb
Mon May 17 11:41:17 PDT 2004


Thanks.  That sounds good.

> 
> In a word, yes.  Once you are up and running on gentoo, emerge the
> gentoolkit package, and you can query the packages easily. There is
> even a KDE/QT based gui interface to portage).
> 
> Or, if you like simple *nix tools, just 'find /var/db/pkg -name
> "*.ebuild" | grep xyz' to get a list and look for a specific package
> xyz.  The directory listed in the command is the installed packages
> database for portage.
> 
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> Gentoo 1.4 system

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