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From: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra)
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>For packages, you can use pkg_info to view inside the packages.
>
> * All of this stuff is practically screaming:  "FRAMEWORK!  WHERE'S 
THE
> * SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION PACKAGE??" at me, so I have to go now.. :-)
>
>Maybe we can have an undergrad (hey, isn't there someone on the list
>teaching a user interface course? :) write a frontend in tcl/tk that
>will descend into the /usr/ports tree and show all the descriptions
>and such.  And maybe even install it if you're root. :)

I've written a simple script to pkg_info each package in the Package 
directory.  If you're really going to include a html browser with 2.1, 
I'll try to work the output of the script into a html, built on the fly 
based on which packages are in the directory.

Is this of any use?