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From: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix <target> per dir
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:08:31
Message-Id: 532B58C1.6080304@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eix per dir by James
1 James schrieb am 20.03.2014 21:58:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I often go to /usr/portage/<target-dir>
5 > and browse the packages under a given
6 > category; for example /usr/portage/media-sound
7 >
8 > Rather that looking at the packages one at a time,
9 > It be nice to use (perhaps gentoolkit options therein) syntax/options
10 > to list all the packages in a (dir) group
11 > and the single line description, it batches?
12 >
13 > Thus allowing quickbrowsing by category to decide which packages to install
14 > and test, based on quickly looking at the descriptions.
15 > The output should look something like this?
16 >
17 > media-sound/SmarTagger
18 > Description: Perl script for renaming and tagging mp3s
19 > <snip>
20 > media-sound/zynaddsubf
21 > Description: ZynAddSubFX is an opensource software synthesizer.
22 >
23 >
24 > Suggestions and ideas, that already exist, are welcome;
25 > or do I need to hack something (ugly)?
26 >
27
28
29 eix -cC category
30
31 --
32 Regards
33 Daniel

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