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