From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGD6T-0003KZ-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4904E0091; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E5DE0091 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so1102314ewy.34 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:24:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=NO1KLpm6FZGlNKEZ6kqXungBOZkDXJcT/q17tO+iqvQ=; b=nOkI7d5IWGKyHB3k+WbalQHhtRptyWyKr03cC43mp7W1n5w/txtt5GwgRg5cE2pOEB yVRhILVEsna5ranRrWIs+9tjQpAVYt7joneqr8svolQzJQC7vVxq5vNbq61Xmkg7MlEt CaxOMYFuiZqnQfLeZrSTEBTnPjOIg3QsSnWFU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=g8lBXwMQEBKvQKuS9Us/lIaOK605nV6WUirMsanyXU5oX8N4+sW/TyJBDKQovPVwlf VS3eN5KA2hsuqIj3m+HeKcSWZxyv/CUvJoVd63owTUYxc4s+7lskcRO3wA0d15GBPWmj WPv0UYfFA1442odMJrKUGpgkS8VbcLFUh6BDo= Received: by 10.211.194.9 with SMTP id w9mr4728201ebp.19.1245075842954; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm57076eyf.58.2009.06.15.07.24.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:24:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output? Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:22:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Harry Putnam References: <87zlc9n0jl.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87zlc9n0jl.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906151622.27246.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ff038dc0-0ad0-4af2-a81e-9e23e3f5dae9 X-Archives-Hash: c1422dafc12a1bcbef61b93bb57a596b On Monday 15 June 2009 14:28:46 Harry Putnam wrote: > Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to > understand all the info contained in its ouput. eix's man page always seemed to me to break rule #1 of user-interfaces: "Do not expose the underlying implementation in the interface." > A quick search on `output' seems to miss it. You want to search on "\!t" in this case > Things like found in this output: > > eix ^apr$ > > * dev-libs/apr > Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t > 1.3.3!t 1.3.5!t {debug doc ipv6 urandom} > Homepage: http://apr.apache.org/ > Description: Apache Portable Runtime Library > > > What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean? RESTRICT="test" You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT" > Also, is it odd to have older versions under `~'? No, it just means the maintainer didn't change anything in the older unstable versions when marking the later one stable. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com