On 2019-06-21 11:41, Grant Taylor wrote: > > Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE > > from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the > > framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? > > Does equery meta not show what you want?
No description. It clearly gets the homepage info from the .ebuild file (it doesn't exist anywhere else) so why it cannot also get the description is beyond me. > % egrep "(DESCRIPTION|HOMEPATE)" /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/*.ebuild > /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r1.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="rxvt > clone with xft and unicode > support" > /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.22-r3.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="rxvt > clone with xft and unicode > support" > /usr/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9999.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="rxvt > clone with xft and unicode support" That's what I meant by "trivially worked around" :-) BTW, does your prompt mean you are a csh user? Wow. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
