On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:54:22 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
wrote:
> I'm searching for a program to provide help in finding the proper
> package.
...
> I would prefer to have a tool to find out all packages with "*python*"
> in the name or, even better, to be able to search inside descriptions.

I usually just work from the pkgsrc tree e.g.:

$ grep -il python /usr/pkgsrc/*/*/DESCR

One trivial way to review those files:

$ grep -il python /usr/pkgsrc/*/*/DESCR |xargs head |more

HTH.

--jkl