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On 20/03/2014 22:58, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I often go to /usr/portage/<target-dir> |
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> and browse the packages under a given |
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> category; for example /usr/portage/media-sound |
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> Rather that looking at the packages one at a time, |
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> It be nice to use (perhaps gentoolkit options therein) syntax/options |
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> to list all the packages in a (dir) group |
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> and the single line description, it batches? |
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> Thus allowing quickbrowsing by category to decide which packages to install |
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> and test, based on quickly looking at the descriptions. |
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> The output should look something like this? |
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> media-sound/SmarTagger |
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> Description: Perl script for renaming and tagging mp3s |
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> <snip> |
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> media-sound/zynaddsubf |
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> Description: ZynAddSubFX is an opensource software synthesizer. |
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> Suggestions and ideas, that already exist, are welcome; |
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> or do I need to hack something (ugly)? |
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To search the portage tree, use eix. |
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Those dirs are really portage categories, so use the -C <category> option: |
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$ eix udev |
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[I] sys-fs/udev |
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... |
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I] virtual/udev |
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... |
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$ eix -C sys-fs udev |
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[I] sys-fs/udev |
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... |
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alanm@khamul ~ $ eix -C virtual udev |
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[I] virtual/udev |
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... |
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{huge chunks of snippage in there for clarity, but you get the idea what |
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-C does} |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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