Is this a known issue with a fix coming or is this by design (which
seems shockingly short-sighted). I searched bugs.gentoo.org for quite a
while and didn't see anything like this amongst the bajillion other
portage bugs, so I added a new one:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180307
Why can't I just search for an exact package (like to find out which
versions I have installed/available, or other info).
daevid ~ # esearch python | less
[ Results for search key : python ]
[ Applications found : 54 ]
* dev-lang/python
Latest version available: 2.4.4-r4
Latest version installed: 2.4.4
Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
Homepage:http://www.python.org/
Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive,
object-oriented programming language.
License: PSF-2.2
daevid ~ # esearch dev-lang/python
[ Results for search key : dev-lang/python ]
[ Applications found : 0 ]
Yes, I can use eix, but I don't have this on all my boxes, nor do I want
to install it and maintain yet another package cache and all that (for
example, on a dev VMWare guest that I want to keep as small as
possible).
daevid ~ # eix dev-lang/python
[U] dev-lang/python
Available versions:
(2.3) 2.3.5-r2 2.3.5-r3 ~2.3.6 ~2.3.6-r2
(2.4) 2.4.3-r1 2.4.3-r4 2.4.4 2.4.4-r4
(2.5) [M]~2.5-r2 [M]~2.5.1-r2
Installed: 2.3.5-r2(2.3)(17:50:44 09/10/05)(X berkdb
-bootstrap -build -doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses -nocxx readline ssl -tcltk
-ucs2)
2.4.4(2.4)(00:06:19 05/12/07)(berkdb
-bootstrap -build -doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses -nocxx readline ssl -tk -ucs2)
Homepage:http://www.python.org/
Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive,
object-oriented programming language.
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