Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de>
To: Gentoo-User ML <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] supported package count comparison
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:15:00
Message-Id: 20110323211314.5ecbfe49@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] supported package count comparison by Kfir Lavi
1 Am Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:42:48 +0200
2 schrieb Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com>:
3
4 > Hi,
5
6 Hi,
7
8 > For counting Gentoo packages I did:
9 > eix -c | wc -l
10 > and got 15849
11
12 Perhaps a minor nitpick, but you need the --pure-packages option, otherwise you
13 add a (small) bias to that number. From eix(1):
14
15 -*, --pure-packages (toggle)
16 (do not forget quoting if you use the short form from within a shell.) Omit printing of additional information
17 (overlay names, number of found packages) after the packages. This might be useful for some shell scripts pars‐
18 ing the output
19
20 [...]
21 > Regards,
22 > Kfir
23
24 HTH
25 --
26 Marc Joliet

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