[gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Hi all,

Using eix for some time (at least a year now), I discovered today
(eix-0.5.5) a very strange feature which and in less perfect world than
gentoo's might perhaps qualify as a bug.

If I type "eix <package>" and the package is unstable (or has unstable
versions) and appears as such in the gentoo database, I expect to see it
-for the unstable versions- in eix's output: the man page says so anyway;
but this happens only if I have not marked the package with "~x86" in *my*
/etc/portage/package.keywords file. If I mark the package (with "~x86")
eix tells me :

* app-editors/emacs-cvs 
     Available versions:  22.0.50-r1 22.0.50-r2 [M]23.0.0
     Installed:           22.0.50-r2
     Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
     Description:         Emacs is the extensible, customizable,
     self-documenting real-time display editor.

and this is a *big lie* (works with any package apparently).

Or is it intended?
-- 
  Jean 

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