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On Friday, 21 June 2019 18:27:58 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from |
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> an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the |
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> framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? |
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> Example: I have installed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode. I don't know what it |
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> is (no, really! :-P ) and I sure as h*ll don't know the exact version |
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> number I have. I want to visit the upstream website to learn more. |
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> I know the following command will mostly do it, but it will |
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> occassionally show too much and scroll the relevant result off the |
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> screen. Also, being a search, it is much slower than necessary. |
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> emerge --search --quiet n x11-terms/rxvt-unicode |
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I use 'eix -l <package>' to get this sort of information. I'm sure there are |
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cleverer options to use with eix, so it only prints the database fields you |
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want, but the above has served most of my needs well. Install app-portage/ |
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eix, then run eix-update and from then on you can use eix-sync to sync portage |
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and/or overlays with a mirror and search for the package you want. |
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rxvt-unicode is a terminal emulator, like xterm, konsole, terminology, xfce4- |
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terminal , etc. which you use within your xsession, instead of having to |
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switch over to a tty. |
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There's even a page about it - I can't recall having read before, but it looks |
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quite detailed: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator |
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HTH |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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