From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 9:12:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6412837B41B for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0MHCB762269; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:12:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:12:11 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Dan Trainor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports browser Message-ID: <20020122121211.A62237@blackhelicopters.org> References: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken>; from dan@ript.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:59AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can just call up the ports tree in a web browser, or use the FreeBSD.org web site; there's a link there to the ports collection. On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:59AM -0700, Dan Trainor wrote: > Anyone know of an ncurses-based program or something that will let me > browse my ports tree, and read me pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and plg-plist? > I'd just like a more orderly way of browsing the list, and I don't feel > like: cd port1; cat pkg*; (read for a while, ok) cd ..; cd port1; .... > etc etc. With over what was it, 1600 ports I believe, that becomes a > pretty boring task. > > Thanks > > -dt > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message