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From:  Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Can I get a tip for reading eix output?
Date:  Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:28:46 -0500
Organization:  Still searching...
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Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to
understand all the info contained in its ouput.

A quick search on `output' seems to miss it.

Things like found in this output:

eix ^apr$ 

* dev-libs/apr
     Available versions:  (1)  1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t 1.3.3!t 1.3.5!t
	{debug doc ipv6 urandom}
     Homepage:            http://apr.apache.org/
     Description:         Apache Portable Runtime Library


What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean?

Also, is it odd to have older versions under `~'?