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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:05:32
Message-Id: 87zlc9n0jl.fsf@newsguy.com
1 Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to
2 understand all the info contained in its ouput.
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4 A quick search on `output' seems to miss it.
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6 Things like found in this output:
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8 eix ^apr$
9
10 * dev-libs/apr
11 Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t 1.3.3!t 1.3.5!t
12 {debug doc ipv6 urandom}
13 Homepage: http://apr.apache.org/
14 Description: Apache Portable Runtime Library
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17 What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean?
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19 Also, is it odd to have older versions under `~'?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output? Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>