Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 6/1/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@×××××××.net> wrote:
> 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).

Why is it a lie?! Have you not accepted that version explicity in your
own config file? So, isn't that version available? If you do an emerge
emacs-csv, wouldn't it pull out the keyworded package? Note that eix
uses the "available" word, not "stable" or anything like that. By
using "available", it is dynamic and can give results accourding to
your personal config.

I guess its more a feature, it predicts exactly what portage will
do... I didn't even knew it was using my personal config files, that
is awesome!

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Daniel da Veiga
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