On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:54:38 +0900
> "Douglas Anderson" <dja@...> wrote:
>
>> $ equery list -h
>> List all packages matching a query pattern
>> Syntax:
>> list <local-opts> pkgspec
>> <local-opts> is either of:
>> -i, --installed - search installed packages (default)
>> -I, --exclude-installed - do not search installed packages
>> -p, --portage-tree - also search in portage tree (/usr/portage)
>> -o, --overlay-tree - also search in overlay tree
>> (/usr/portage/local/layman/wschlich-testing
>> /usr/portage/local/layman/xwing /usr/portage/local/layman/genscripts
>> /usr/portage/local/layman/wschlich-testing
>> /usr/portage/local/layman/xwing /usr/portage/local/layman/genscripts
>> /usr/local/portage)
>> -f, --full-regex - query is a regular expression
>> -e, --exact-name - list only those packages that exactly
>> match -d, --duplicates - list only installed duplicate packages
>>
>> That's an awful lot of "searching" there for something that's
>> definitely not a search. List is really ambiguous, but whatever.
>
> So replace "search" with "list" or "look" in the help output.
>
>> I understand the point of having a stable interface, but this is
>> probably the most widely recommended tool on the forums and #gentoo.
>> Stability is not a good enough reason to let it bit rot. Wasn't a more
>> unified tool interface also one of the original goals of gentoolkit?
>
> I never said that you should let it bitrot, just that changing the
> syntax for IMO questionable reasons shouldn't be done lightly. I was
> stictly talking about the user interface, not the API, in case that
> wasn't obvious.
>
> Marius
>
Ok, I see your point and I agree with you. Thanks for the advice...
I'll work on making the backend easier to maintain and extend while
keeping the syntax as is. I still want to clean up the UI a little
bit, but I will discuss anything I'm unsure about on the list.
Thanks for bringing me back to reality :)
-Doug
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