[gentoo-user] Re: query ebuild fields

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2019-06-21 11:41, Grant Taylor wrote:

> > Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE
> > from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the
> > framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around?
>
> Does equery meta not show what you want?

No description.  It clearly gets the homepage info from the .ebuild file
(it doesn't exist anywhere else) so why it cannot also get the
description is beyond me.

> % egrep "(DESCRIPTION|HOMEPATE)" /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/*.ebuild
> /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r1.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="rxvt clone with xft and unicode
> support"
> /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r3.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="rxvt clone with xft and unicode
> support"
> /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9999.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="rxvt clone with xft and unicode support"

That's what I meant by "trivially worked around" :-)

BTW, does your prompt mean you are a csh user?  Wow.

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