On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:34:06 +0100 Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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 > Porthole displays the long description when it exists and has always done so. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
