From: staticsafe <me@staticsafe.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name> database
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 23:07:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <518C6465.6080007@staticsafe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <418374.63006.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
On 5/9/2013 22:59, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Having package data in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name> carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories.
>
> I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/<package-name> in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a different structure nkwon as pkgng.
>
> Is there any way to configure so as to avoid this annoyance in Gentoo? Like maybe making /var/db/pkg/<package-name>?
>
> One can do
> ls /var/db/pkg/*/<package-name> but this is still an annoyance.
>
> I have some limited experience with Gentoo Linux on my older computer. Compiling the kernel took 130 minutes, and then the kernel failed to boot.
>
> Tom
>
>
Use equery?
$ man equery
Equery is a collection of modules for querying the state of Gentoo
packages, files and USE flags.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-10 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 2:59 [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name> database Thomas Mueller
2013-05-10 3:07 ` staticsafe [this message]
2013-05-10 7:18 ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-10 8:15 ` Dale
2013-05-10 13:41 ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-10 16:35 ` Mark David Dumlao
2013-05-10 19:16 ` Dale
2013-05-10 8:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 15:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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2013-05-08 11:05 Thomas Mueller
2013-05-08 11:37 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-05-08 11:41 ` Randolph Maaßen
2013-05-08 12:28 ` Neil Bothwick
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