Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for change of emerge -up output

[Robert Moss]

> The current output of emerge -p is difficult to machine parse because
> its difficult to split the package name and package version. However,

Really? All you have to do is strip off the stuff between the [ and ] 
plus the space, strip off anything after the now remaining first space, 
and then you have something like app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r5. Then 
anything before hyphen-digit is the package name, and anything after the 
hyphen in hyphen-digit is the package version. So, you just want to (for 
example) regexp away "-[[:digit:]]*.*" for the package name, and match 
that and strip the hyphen for the version. Why is this difficult all of 
a sudden?