Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 04 May 2007, Vaeth wrote:
> > nazgul ~ # eix gimp-print
> > [I] media-gfx/gimp-print
> >      Available versions:  4.2.7 (~)5.1.0 {cups foomaticdb gimp gtk
> > nls ppds readline}
> >      Installed versions:  5.1.0(20:50:45 05/02/07)(cups foomaticdb
> > gimp gtk -nls ppds readline)
> >      Homepage:            http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
> >      Description:         Gimp Print Drivers
> >
> > I have no need to see that full list of USE flags between braces on
> > the "Available versions" line - the information is already on
> > the "Installed versions" line.
>
> It is accidental that the informations are identical in this case.
> The first one are the useflags of all ebuilds for the package, the
> second one are that stored in /var/db/pkg. You will see a
> difference for other packages (e.g. probably for gcc or *-sources).
> Note that if you use -l (--versionlines) the IUSE output will be even
> more verbose, but I guess if you look at the gcc/*-sources example
> you will understand the reason.

I do understand the reason perfectly well and I do know what eix is 
doing and why. I just wanted to disable the "Available" display, as 
there are other means I use to find what's in a packages' IUSE.

Bo did provide the information I was looking for:

EIX_PRINT_IUSE='false'

thanks

alan


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Alan McKinnon
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