Re: Distro for granny and/or companies?

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:18, Jonathan Day wrote:
> IMHO, the two problems are one and the same. Both need
> access to a wide variety of packages. Neither
> necessarily know the exact name of the packages they
> need, but they do know what those packages need to do.

Gentoo has made a lot of progress on this problem by making portage
searchable by regex.  For example, this command will show you all the
packages that have "vpn" or "pptp" in the title:

# emerge --search "vpn|pptp"

Gentoo also supports a much heaver search against package description
using the --searchdesc option.

Dylan