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On Monday 15 June 2009 14:28:46 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to |
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> understand all the info contained in its ouput. |
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eix's man page always seemed to me to break rule #1 of user-interfaces: |
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"Do not expose the underlying implementation in the interface." |
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> A quick search on `output' seems to miss it. |
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You want to search on "\!t" in this case |
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> Things like found in this output: |
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> eix ^apr$ |
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> * dev-libs/apr |
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> Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t |
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> 1.3.3!t 1.3.5!t {debug doc ipv6 urandom} |
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> Homepage: http://apr.apache.org/ |
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> Description: Apache Portable Runtime Library |
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> What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean? |
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RESTRICT="test" |
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You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT" |
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> Also, is it odd to have older versions under `~'? |
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No, it just means the maintainer didn't change anything in the older unstable |
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versions when marking the later one stable. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |