Re: Packages description

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:32:34 -0400

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:47:05 +0200, Laurent Cloarec
  <cloarec@univ-tlse1.fr> wrote:
> Sorry for this stupid question !
>
> When someone is processing a custom installation of Linux, the wizzards
> included within the distributions display a category-structured list of
> the different packages, with a text description, and the release
> numbers.
> This list must be based upon file(s) or a small database...
>
> Is there a way to display (and eventually print) this list before to
> perform the setup process ?

Probably, but the specific commands would be different for different
Linux distributions. 

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