On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:26:14 +0200
Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:

> Rudmer van Dijk schreef:
> > 
> > Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the 
> > availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion!
> > 
> > 	Rudmer
> 
> Actually, it most certainly does; keyworded packages are shown in brown
> with a ~ in front, masked packages are listed in red with a [M] in front.
> 
> Of course you can use what suits you best; just wanted to clear up the
> misconception.
> 
> Holly

I haven't seen anyone post this script as yet.  It's by ciaranm and is
very useful when people ask on irc why a certain package version can't
be installed on their arch.

Sample output:
tom@tom ~ 0 0.67 $ eshowkw
gnome Keywords for gnome-base/gnome:

            | a a a h i m m p p p p s s s x x x x
            | l m r p a 6 i p p p p 3 h p 8 8 8 8
            | p d m p 6 8 p c c c c 9   a 6 6 6 6
            | h 6   a 4 k s   6 - - 0   r   - - -
            | a 4             4 m o     c   f o o
            |                   a d         b b d
            |                   c           s s
            |                   o           d d
            |                   s
------------+------------------------------------
1.4-r3      |               -           + +
2.8.2       | + +   + +   + +           + +
2.8.3-r1    | ~ +   + +   ~ +           + +
2.10        |   ~     ~     ~ ~         ~ ~
2.10-r1     | + +   + ~     + ~         + +
2.10.1_pre0 |   ~           ~ ~         ~ ~

Hope this is helpful to someone ;)

-- 
Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>