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 1MESuN-0006Qk-Mo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:52:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 170BEE0499; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF720E0499 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:52:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so3615580gxk.10 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:52:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PVkzUEO2R+tXbcPbclYyGaauc9uA++wbk5XY7JGgWGg=; b=cQY5pqvbEwfFLWpGJu3aoE9Rdpymwn6vjddIHbrf9Vf5+u6NgwGJ/Rw2pwdNSSeT+B 3/2qjOi8B5ZFz7PhlhPzd2i+ExeExVhUtJ+ACot8ArhGqfXRP02PV/gb55T1wo+dRqgV NnAByBG5qwkt65EB7tlmLguC/d0MBZLetnDhU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ahryvOa2Hyy6O6uBtqXZkb703dHASMSf46vi82q49HkIHm3C3jSFeWqtjGQa2anQ9y 4sKiNbuMOJpACQ+9RiVomAB08gKgSZxX4o7QxCG5UOoWzTh/fFjz5FNEADCMK9c22Osc KZajtSAT8+/lrOx929dQ8+aFvgXFHz1tSDvdQ= Received: by 10.90.115.17 with SMTP id n17mr1362876agc.52.1244659941608; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.149? (r169h149.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm13631788agb.68.2009.06.10.11.51.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A30006C.10204@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:50:20 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package? References: <1244637938.8296.15.camel@polaris> <4A2FABBB.2030004@konstantinhansen.de> <4A2FB8B0.5050707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 80652970-7620-4988-bab9-e45bb3ba8406 X-Archives-Hash: f18fe2a9a9f4e7445290165b9da66c52 Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/10/09, Dale wrote: > >> P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the >> same thing? And a different tool for each one. >> > > No, the suggested commands aren't all even doing the same thing. > Especially emerge -e world is an outlier. On a box with a "lazy" or a > "first time install, learning Gentoo" admin it's likely to give a very > different result from most of the others. > > As the OP hasn't given a reason or motivation why he needs the package > list, what it is for, we can only make assumptions and throw out wild > guesses. > > After all, he might even be after emerge -pv --depclean, as it, too, > sort of prints out pretty much all packages on the system. Not to > mention a few thousand lines of dependency information. :) > > They may not be doing the same thing but they are a answer to the same question. Dale :-) :-)