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From: "Urs Schütz" <u.schutz@×××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:22:49
Message-Id: 165ec976-e2e5-d1db-1331-9a0b3c9bb42e@bluewin.ch
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields by Ian Zimmerman
1 On 6/21/19 7:27 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2 > Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from
3 > an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the
4 > framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around?
5 ...
6
7 Eix is faster for such things. You can format the output as you need it.
8 Does the following do what you want?
9
10 eix -I --format '<name>\n<homepage>\n<description>\n\n' rxvt-unicode
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12 urs