On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:27:51 +0100
Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:06:52 +0100
> hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Could you elaborate how to query that field via eix which is the
> > de-facto standard for finding packages?
>
> The official standard for finding packages is packages.gentoo.org. It
> (and the somewhat popular eix) have no problems at all reading
> the DESCRIPTION variable from the actual ebuilds.
Which has me wondering if anything out there except human eyes every
reads <longdescription>.
jer
