On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:36 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > can it be improved ? ive thought about it but havent figured out a good > > solution ... maybe just add copy & paste examples to the manpage ? or > > change the syntax of qxpak to mimic tar ? or something else ? > > I'd rather us avoid changing syntax as that can break scripts. Overall > the tools work really well after you master the syntax down for the > operations you need them to preform.
makes sense > Granted right now we can do > qtbz2 -x -O wget-1.10.2.tbz2 \ > | qxpak -O - -x RDEPEND CFLAGS CXXFLAGS USE DEPEND > > But the output ordering is not the same as we requested on cmdline. It > appears to be based on the ordering that the item shows up in the vdb. this is how it acts, but we can change it so it processes them in the order given, not the order found ... i think that should alleviate the need for -x ? > Shrug sorry I don't think I really answered the question but this > is all that came to mind.. i rarely use the utility so any feedback is useful -mike
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