On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 at 19:41, Arve Barsnes <arve.bars...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 at 18:24, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new > > dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix" > > did not list the new package, while "eix-installed" did: > > > > # eix-update --quiet > > # env -i eix | grep -E 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123' > > [I] app-portage/eix > > # env -i eix-installed all | grep -E > > 'app-portage/eix|media-libs/libmpg123' > > app-portage/eix-0.36.7 > > media-libs/libmpg123-1.32.3-r1 > > # > > > > Are there any "eix" gurus out there who can tell me how to trick "eix" > > into listing _all_ packages? > > I'm no "eix guru", but reading the man page to show me what the '-i' > flag does pretty much explain why it would exclude many packages. You > probably want the capital '-I' version to list installed packages.
Right, ignore that, I see the '-i' flag was to 'env'. But running eix on its own by default only outputs 50 packages, so there's that. Regards, Arve
