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

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:35:39PM +0100, Robert Moss wrote:
> >The current output of emerge -p is difficult to machine parse because
> >its difficult to split the package name and package version. However,

> 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?

Not being funny, but wouldn't it be so much easier and cleaner the way I
described?

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