From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:54:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDE9D42.6000504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDE2CD3.8020607@casema.nl>
On 12/06/2011 06:55 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> Bill Longman wrote:
>> is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related
>> applications without without being burried under audio related
>> system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple)
>> "this application does not supprt audio but only imageing"
>>
>> I want the full dexcription, not only the heade line...
>>
>> Here's one way that I like to look for these, Meino:
>>
>> eix --stable -c -S audio
>>
>> Obviously there's no easy way to get a noise-free listing of what you
>> want, but I've often found looking for text in the description with the
>> -S is a useful method.
>
> well, there is this: (don't forget the trailing slash!)
>
> `eix -c media-sound/`
>
> but for a whole category you'll definitely want to use '-c', there is so
> much... but all audio related even without audio in the name or
> description.
If you know your application lives in a specific category, then you
should use the "-C category". But Meino's question specifically asked
how to get ANY audio related application out of all of portage. That
means you have to search WITHOUT a category, unless of course you are
doing searches through each individual category in search of some string.
The lowercase -c compresses the output to include the header. The
uppercase -C forces a category. You can use wildcards on categories, for
instance, "-C sci-* ks" returns entries from
sci-{chemistry,electronics,libs,visualization}.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-03 10:14 [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix meino.cramer
2011-12-03 10:43 ` Stroller
2011-12-03 14:21 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-04 15:16 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-12-06 14:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Bill Longman
2011-12-06 14:55 ` Rudmer van Dijk
2011-12-06 22:54 ` Bill Longman [this message]
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