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From: Christian Hoenig <list@××××××.cc>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: equery list <pkg> output
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:56:30
Message-Id: 200410202155.05737.list@hoenig.cc
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4 Hi,
5
6 I am used to etcat -v <pkg> to get the available packages. And as etcat is
7 deprecated, I had a look at equery list <pkg>.
8
9 And I really wonder, if people prefer an output like this (from current
10 equery):
11
12 $ equery list -i -o -p gentoolkit
13 [ Searching for package 'gentoolkit' in all categories among: ]
14 * installed packages
15 [I--] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre10 (0)
16 * Portage tree (/var/portage/tree)
17 [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre2 (0)
18 [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre4 (0)
19 [-P-] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre1 (0)
20 [-P-] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre3 (0)
21 [-P-] [ ~] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre9 (0)
22 [-P-] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8 (0)
23 * overlay tree (/var/portage/overlay)
24
25 or in contrast to something like this (which is based on the etcat output):
26
27 $ ~/portage/equery.my.old list -i -o -p gentoolkit
28 Searching for package 'gentoolkit' in all categories among:
29 * installed packages
30 * Portage tree (/var/portage/tree)
31 * overlay tree (/var/portage/overlay)
32
33 * app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
34 [-P-] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre1 (0)
35 [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre2 (0)
36 [-P-] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre3 (0)
37 [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre4 (0)
38
39 * app-portage/gentoolkit
40 [-P-] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8 (0)
41 [-P-] [ ~] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre9 (0)
42 [I--] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre10 (0)
43
44 I have a patch available for current equery to (additionally) generate the
45 second output, though I don't know, why one would ever use the first output
46 over the second output.
47 I wonder, what people would miss, if current output would totally be exchanged
48 with my proposed output (based on etcat stuff).
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50
51 come on and tell me :-)
52
53 take care, have fun
54 /christian
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: equery list <pkg> output Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>