From release notes for FC5T3 (web)
Tony Heaton
theaton at lanl.gov
Mon Mar 6 21:52:05 UTC 2006
The way I do it is:
yum info > packageinfo
less packageinfo
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:38 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:37, Andy Green wrote:
>
> > >>> machine with 'everything' installed, how are you supposed to
> > >>> find out what is available and if you like it?
> > >> Lots of packages can be installed and not really discoverable from the
> > >> system menus. If a commandline utility goes in /usr/bin then unless you
> > >> know the name you will likely never be aware of it (I guess apropos
> > >> might help). So "install everything" so I can try things is really
> > >> "bloat me" with many things I will never know I have.
> > >
> > > OK, how do you try out those things? If you are content with
> > > the packages from years ago, why install a new system at all?
> >
> > Sorry I didn't understand how that applied to what I said. For the
> > record I like new stuff that is better than the old stuff. My point was
> > that "install everything" is not the same as "discover everything".
>
> OK, then explain the process of discovering everything without
> installing it first. That might save me a lot of time. I don't
> remember saying anything about menus, though - how do you find
> the new command line programs when they and their corresponding
> man pages aren't installed?
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
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