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On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:59:09 Michael P. Soulier wrote: |
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> Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, "what the heck |
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> is that"? |
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> So I look at the ebuild file... |
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> msoulier@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION |
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> /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 |
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> .5.ebuild |
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> DESCRIPTION="Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg" |
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> Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, |
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> so I looked in the emerge manpage and found --info, but that tells me |
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> everything *except* the DESCRIPTION string. :) |
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> equery doesn't seem to dump this either.. |
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> So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :) |
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emerge eix |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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