[gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

[gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

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...

Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Have a nice weekend!
Best regards,
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

[Stroller]

On 3 December 2011, at 10:14, meino.cramer@gmx.de 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…

I think your best bet will be something like:

   eix -c -C '*sound*'

Unfortunately there are c 385 items in the media-sound category, and I would guess libraries will be mixed in with apps amongst those. You could `grep -v library`, but then you'd miss out on the midi player that's packaged with its library (wildmidi).

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

[Claudio Roberto França Pereira]

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I'd first do a "ls /usr/portage/ | grep sound\|audio" to find out audio
categories within the portage tree.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Listing applications with eix...

[James]

 <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:


> 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"

So the easy thing to is use the debian software index
and find what your want (or a selection of applications)
and then hope some of them are in portage or an overlay
repository:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/

cd /usr/portage/media-sound 
eix -e <package>

hth,


James

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

[Bill Longman]

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On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:14 AM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.

-- 
Bill Longman

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Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

[Rudmer van Dijk]

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.


	Rudmer

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

[Bill Longman]

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}.