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 1MGapL-0003CU-Nm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:43:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49428E02A6; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f220.google.com (mail-ew0-f220.google.com [209.85.219.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE19E02A9 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy20 with SMTP id 20so273640ewy.34 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:43:57 -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:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=BVcsw0/5RaW357LVSjUnodZS9XkHJiOZgLbO/POs31M=; b=u/ipDVEQLjyvdfCgoskSQ46Zb8yS8vUHeUFyqWOlvyuBQDNR1emD5loEE7+3mgckTQ QBLNC0/G3mhX0Z07XaUzz2NLJTEp1pAi9x3ehi8fXNDwJ0ZBBqDHeAst266HmF/1IXGk P31XYP2O42kYbxBQkDTUrDGEjRBy9TDwUkWLo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=hWGDDD6bKfDLEsw8roA6G1ku5Ec9OpH6sD/LQCI3QTDaau8ojMo0uztE4NyXGDJ13+ k8+IYRqwEOaWnNxJECGkkZb6Hv1Av/Sb4KT1hPo9vv8NlF7pbGYBA/njeIFkc2F8VJkK kpeib6EaihHXsO52ozNgmWKcMUT6A7N0STIEs= Received: by 10.210.29.17 with SMTP id c17mr1334631ebc.88.1245167037336; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:43:57 -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 28sm56462eye.6.2009.06.16.08.43.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:43:56 -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: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:42:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <87zlc9n0jl.fsf@newsguy.com> <200906151622.27246.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4A37943D.7040502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A37943D.7040502@gmail.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: <200906161742.22368.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0bfa925a-bab5-4aa0-aa9e-27db60ee021c X-Archives-Hash: 257c2028c87749542513fc493aa209f2 On Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:46:53 bn wrote: > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > >> 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" > > Which in turn, means? > m. Before I answer, did you look for the section in the man page at all? It seems pretty straightforward to me: OUTPUT Slots In contrast to usual output of versions in emerge, eix can also print slot names if they are nonempty and different from "0". Whether this happens is determined by the PRINT_SLOTS variable and by the content of the FORMATSTRING. If slots are printed, the slot name is separated from the version num- ber either with a colon, or the slot names are written in braces. You can choose the preferred modes with the COLON_SLOTS variable. Some Examples: [snip] 1.0+i+l+v+s!f!m!p!b!s!t!u!i!d This is version 1.0 which is subject to PROPERTIES="interactive live virtual set" as well as RESTRICT="fetch mirror primaryuri binchecks strip test userpriv installsources bindist" It should be immediately obvious from reading the first two screens of text in that man page that the author is utterly completely clueless about authoring user documentation. It's about as helpful and communicative if he'd just done a code dump. With that in mind, it becomes apparent that the listed flags are all the initial letter of the words in the PROPERTIES and RESTRICT lists. It's confusing as hell, that's why I said you'd find a clue (and not a definitive answer). Anyways, those items in the lists are all settings/variables applicable to make.conf, fully described in the relevant man page. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com