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rattus ~ # esearch x11-terms/rxvt-unicode |
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[ Results for search key : x11-terms/rxvt-unicode ] |
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[ Applications found : 1 ] |
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* x11-terms/rxvt-unicode |
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Latest version available: 9.21 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 903 kB |
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Homepage: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html |
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Description: rxvt clone with xft and unicode support |
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License: GPL-3 |
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rattus ~ # |
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its less a search than a database lookup like the locate command so its |
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very fast |
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rattus ~ # esearch app-portage/esearch |
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[ Results for search key : app-portage/esearch ] |
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[ Applications found : 1 ] |
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* app-portage/esearch |
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Latest version available: 1.3-r2 |
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Latest version installed: 1.3-r2 |
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Size of downloaded files: 18 kB |
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Homepage: https://github.com/fuzzyray/esearch |
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Description: Replacement for 'emerge --search' with search-index |
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License: GPL-2 |
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rattus ~ # |
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On 22/6/19 1:42 am, Mick wrote: |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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> |
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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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