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 1OoGdh-00081i-W2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:07:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD149E09DA; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A7FE09FD for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk36 with SMTP id 36so385903pzk.40 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:07:21 -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 :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Q5IQqk1g1Tc756npv/+wrWXA9QsmJ5fHnLjclSlWaKQ=; b=wT9jPEnOCyRMgZMJBkBRGqLdOt/HytMODWmCZ4HevoFfLXUdDk00PNOzARaYNKd8fv HWJQOL0lA0rWghSGvLaH6aeerRBEmDK/xfxlFNyhUnEcZuE8brkI3GNHzMzT3TRWTqo8 UBJtE5NW3W9rCO+JoiYNXN3Mwvl0RuzG3wXvw= 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:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=vuh9OkysvsFlWUfMx60+JkbupcWL6zcfpPbbtcuieNGIDF9+PkI3NNwWgDabO5d15o idPvarO7XeSSWWWvsx96eC/EkN24m3RFPWO9gF7vzLsKmexeSxcm6yWqH4n6C0qP0xgK EritZLop4LLhahEylNPz/JGi88VNVVRAEmXHY= Received: by 10.114.12.15 with SMTP id 15mr9524147wal.18.1282745240667; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g4sm2364658wae.14.2010.08.25.07.07.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C752396.8040005@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:07:18 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100817 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.1 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] Re: 32/64bit confusion References: <4C743164.7040508@etherstorm.net> <20100824214506.GA31216@Caemlyn> <4C7444F2.1000401@etherstorm.net> In-Reply-To: <4C7444F2.1000401@etherstorm.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a1e28ffa-5d49-4bbc-98f6-bde336c21874 X-Archives-Hash: 19126801d332cd05af776f22b5575346 On 08/24/2010 03:17 PM, tparker@etherstorm.net wrote: > On 8/24/2010 5:45 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: >> A good idea might be to install the package app-portage/eix. It allows >> you to, amongst other things, to search for packages in case you're >> uncertain about a package name. The search will also tell you whether >> the package is installed, what version as well as what use-flags there >> are for the package. >> There are a lot of other benefits to this application so read the man >> page. > > Extremely useful, grabbing it now, thank you! That's an understatement. I think, of all the portage tools out there, I have used eix the most. Of course, revdep-rebuild comes in second, but it's not even really close.