[gentoo-amd64] "Nice" eix display on amd64 but not x86?

[gentoo-amd64] "Nice" eix display on amd64 but not x86?

[David Ameiss]

I've noticed on my amd64 systems that eix prints some nice extra 
information, such as:

[I] app-portage/portage-utils
      Available versions:  0.1.20 ~0.1.21 ~0.1.22 ~0.1.23
      Installed:           0.1.20(22:36:18 10/16/06)(python)
      Homepage:            http://www.gentoo.org/
      Description:         small and fast portage helper tools written in C

(Some nice coloring and hilighting are also there which don't show up in 
emails.)

My x86 systems don't show the same thing:

* app-portage/portage-utils
      Available versions:  0.1.20 ~0.1.21 ~0.1.22 ~0.1.23
      Installed:           0.1.20
      Homepage:            http://www.gentoo.org/
      Description:         small and fast portage helper tools written in C

I've been searching and racking my brain trying to find out what the 
difference is between the amd64 and x86 installs that prevent this from 
showing up on x86, to no avail. Is there a flag or setting or package 
that I've overlooked, or is this just a nice feature that's only 
available on amd64?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] "Nice" eix display on amd64 but not x86?

[Naga]

On Sunday 21 January 2007 16:43, David Ameiss wrote:
[...]
> I've been searching and racking my brain trying to find out what the
> difference is between the amd64 and x86 installs that prevent this from
> showing up on x86, to no avail. Is there a flag or setting or package
> that I've overlooked, or is this just a nice feature that's only
> available on amd64?

Try looking at /etc/eixrc. On my boxes I get the same result regardless of 
arch.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] "Nice" eix display on amd64 but not x86?

[David Ameiss]

Naga wrote:
> On Sunday 21 January 2007 16:43, David Ameiss wrote:
> [...]
>> I've been searching and racking my brain trying to find out what the
>> difference is between the amd64 and x86 installs that prevent this from
>> showing up on x86, to no avail. Is there a flag or setting or package
>> that I've overlooked, or is this just a nice feature that's only
>> available on amd64?
> 
> Try looking at /etc/eixrc. On my boxes I get the same result regardless of 
> arch.
> 

Aha! On amd64, /etc/eixrc comes with eix-0.7.9, but up until recently 
(this past week) eix-0.6.4 was the latest unmasked for x86. I just 
noticed that 0.7.9 was marked stable for x86, so I'll have to update.

Thanks!

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