[gentoo-dev] RFC: equery list <pkg> output

[gentoo-dev] RFC: equery list <pkg> output

[Christian Hoenig]

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Hi,

I am used to etcat -v <pkg> to get the available packages. And as etcat is 
deprecated, I had a look at equery list <pkg>. 

And I really wonder, if people prefer an output like this (from current 
equery):

$ equery list -i -o -p gentoolkit
[ Searching for package 'gentoolkit' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre10 (0)
 * Portage tree (/var/portage/tree)
[-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre2 (0)
[-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre4 (0)
[-P-] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre1 (0)
[-P-] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre3 (0)
[-P-] [ ~] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre9 (0)
[-P-] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8 (0)
 * overlay tree (/var/portage/overlay)

or in contrast to something like this (which is based on the etcat output):

$ ~/portage/equery.my.old list -i -o -p gentoolkit
Searching for package 'gentoolkit' in all categories among:
 * installed packages
 * Portage tree (/var/portage/tree)
 * overlay tree (/var/portage/overlay)

*  app-portage/gentoolkit-dev
      [-P-] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre1 (0)
      [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre2 (0)
      [-P-] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre3 (0)
      [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.0_pre4 (0)

*  app-portage/gentoolkit
      [-P-] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8 (0)
      [-P-] [ ~] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre9 (0)
      [I--] [  ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre10 (0)

I have a patch available for current equery to (additionally) generate the 
second output, though I don't know, why one would ever use the first output 
over the second output. 
I wonder, what people would miss, if current output would totally be exchanged 
with my proposed output (based on etcat stuff).


come on and tell me :-)

take care, have fun
/christian
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: equery list <pkg> output

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 12:55, Christian Hoenig wrote:
> I am used to etcat -v <pkg> to get the available packages. And as etcat is 
> deprecated, I had a look at equery list <pkg>. 
> 
> And I really wonder, if people prefer an output like this (from current 
> equery):

I prefer the old output, for one. Please file an enhancement bug at
bugs.gentoo.org so this can be tracked.


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