[gentoo-user] eix question

[gentoo-user] eix question

[Arnau Bria]

hi,

could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix
output? I did not find it in eix man page..

$ eix -c claws-mail
[D] mail-client/claws-mail (2.9.1@17/05/07 -> 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+

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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Alex Schuster]

Arnau Bria writes:

> could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix
> output? I did not find it in eix man page..
>
> $ eix -c claws-mail
> [D] mail-client/claws-mail (2.9.1@17/05/07 -> 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is an
> email client (and news reader) based on GTK+

It is installed, but would be downgraded with the next emerge.

	Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Arnau Bria]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:58:23 +0200
Alex Schuster wrote:

> Arnau Bria writes:
> 
> > could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix
> > output? I did not find it in eix man page..
> >
> > $ eix -c claws-mail
> > [D] mail-client/claws-mail (2.9.1@17/05/07 -> 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is
> > an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+
> 
> It is installed, but would be downgraded with the next emerge.
Thanks! 
> 	Alex
Arnau

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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Arnau Bria wrote:
> hi,
>
> could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix
> output? I did not find it in eix man page..
>
> $ eix -c claws-mail
> [D] mail-client/claws-mail (2.9.1@17/05/07 -> 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is
> an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+

D means downgrade. According to your output, portage will downgrade 
claws-mail from v2.9.1 to v2.6.1

I'm not sure why it wants to do that as both versions are marked stable 
for all arches except x86-freebsd (~ for 2.9.1)

Perhaps you haven't synced in a while, or you put an entry in 
packages.mask recently?

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Philip Webb]

070614 Arnau Bria wrote:
> what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output?
> I did not find it in eix man page..

Someone else has answered this, but I have a couple of related questions:
what does [I] mean ?  and where are these letters documented ?
Does anyone know ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Andrea Bona]

I think that [I] means that the package is already installed.
Maybe here you will find something related:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly#Understanding_Portage.27s_Formatted_and_Colored_Output

Bye
Andrea

On 6/15/07, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 070614 Arnau Bria wrote:
> > what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output?
> > I did not find it in eix man page..
>
> Someone else has answered this, but I have a couple of related questions:
> what does [I] mean ?  and where are these letters documented ?
> Does anyone know ?
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Philip Webb]

070615 Andrea Bona wrote:
> 070614 Philip Webb wrote:
>> what does [I] mean ?  and where are these letters documented ?
> I think that [I] means that the package is already installed.

Yes, that seems intuitive & matches experience;
it's part of Eix (not Portage) & doesn't seem actually to be documented.

> Maybe here you will find something related:
>  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly#Understanding_Portage.27s_Formatted_and_Colored_Output

Thanks: that's very useful.  I tend to forget the wiki (smile).

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