gentoo shill here.
eix does a decent job of searching packages from the command line, and your other problem is non-existant; the "worldfile" contains a list of all user-installed packages, and emerge handles dependancies from there.
Small counterexample: 11-meter radio. It is trivial and common to turn a 4 watt radio (legal, as sold) into a 25 watt radio. It is not unusual to hear someone bragging about having hundreds or thousands of watts available, and there are, for lack of a better word, notorious base stations just about everywhere. It would actually be really nice, for what's left of the community, if the fcc would actually participate in the band, just a little.
Not quite, no. The genetic modification is random, and the mods which are improvements (adaptions) tend to lead to reproductive success. The 'selection' is statistical.
This is the thread that I was looking for. Skipping may well be the ultimate bipedal locomotion. It is a shame that it's embarrasingly silly, but I guess that's really everyone else's problem. Let's just call them jealous.
Submission fails to note that they want pictures of the same locations as the original project. That does take a lot of fun out of the comments already posted, though, so, please, carry on.