Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

["b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>]

Dale ha scritto:
> John covici wrote:
>> Hi.  I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type
>> distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge.
>>
>> 1)  Any way to get a package list as one line per package like
>>     debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ?  The --info gives info about
>>     the system, but does not seem to give a list of packages.  
>>   
> 
> equery list will do that I think.  emerge gentoolkit to get that
> command, if you haven't already.

Also, emerge eix and use eix to search for packages. eix will become one 
of your best friend :), mostly because it's damn FAST.
If you use it, sync portage by doing eix-sync: this launches emerge 
--sync AND updates the eix database.

m.
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