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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:05
Message-Id: 200906151622.27246.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output? by Harry Putnam
1 On Monday 15 June 2009 14:28:46 Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to
3 > understand all the info contained in its ouput.
4
5 eix's man page always seemed to me to break rule #1 of user-interfaces:
6
7 "Do not expose the underlying implementation in the interface."
8
9 > A quick search on `output' seems to miss it.
10
11 You want to search on "\!t" in this case
12
13 > Things like found in this output:
14 >
15 > eix ^apr$
16 >
17 > * dev-libs/apr
18 > Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t
19 > 1.3.3!t 1.3.5!t {debug doc ipv6 urandom}
20 > Homepage: http://apr.apache.org/
21 > Description: Apache Portable Runtime Library
22 >
23 >
24 > What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean?
25
26 RESTRICT="test"
27
28 You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT"
29
30 > Also, is it odd to have older versions under `~'?
31
32 No, it just means the maintainer didn't change anything in the older unstable
33 versions when marking the later one stable.
34
35 --
36 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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