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On 12/06/2011 06:55 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: |
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> Bill Longman wrote: |
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>> is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related |
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>> applications without without being burried under audio related |
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>> system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) |
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>> "this application does not supprt audio but only imageing" |
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>> I want the full dexcription, not only the heade line... |
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>> Here's one way that I like to look for these, Meino: |
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>> eix --stable -c -S audio |
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>> Obviously there's no easy way to get a noise-free listing of what you |
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>> want, but I've often found looking for text in the description with the |
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>> -S is a useful method. |
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> well, there is this: (don't forget the trailing slash!) |
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> `eix -c media-sound/` |
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> but for a whole category you'll definitely want to use '-c', there is so |
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> much... but all audio related even without audio in the name or |
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> description. |
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If you know your application lives in a specific category, then you |
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should use the "-C category". But Meino's question specifically asked |
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how to get ANY audio related application out of all of portage. That |
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means you have to search WITHOUT a category, unless of course you are |
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doing searches through each individual category in search of some string. |
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The lowercase -c compresses the output to include the header. The |
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uppercase -C forces a category. You can use wildcards on categories, for |
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instance, "-C sci-* ks" returns entries from |
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sci-{chemistry,electronics,libs,visualization}. |
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