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 1RY3we-0007bK-9n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:57:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8313A21C277; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE81321C0F3 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so2586344iae.40 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:55:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=n/CnH62PeQ/VUX79DdHKz5dTE+Xgcp0cvnqNoi8HYog=; b=XT9YeYEcBtxIv2WriZ+vR/QJ367mnebSlSRPkcyOm7q6xTxWGTOm/hFZYIl06f28Lv ecZA9+MqFYdpHgqbnH0Ql1/A1+RwMn1KQf40ZFknTxIPQnXGMtmbq/MxdKd+Wm4rTXWw PVlKbQaSxu00NOQF96b2NjSZrYnAjwfPlwmAc= Received: by 10.42.148.136 with SMTP id r8mr16147202icv.1.1323212104403; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:55:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.25.20] (173-8-195-225-Oregon.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [173.8.195.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jm11sm94596442ibb.1.2011.12.06.14.55.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:55:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EDE9D42.6000504@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:54:58 -0800 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111126 Thunderbird/7.0.1 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] Listing applications with eix... References: <20111203101403.GB2885@solfire> <4EDE2CD3.8020607@casema.nl> In-Reply-To: <4EDE2CD3.8020607@casema.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 33624b54-7add-4bdb-9e60-967f470dc7a9 X-Archives-Hash: 6cd4dcdb1da707a9fb435e24c27127a8 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}.