On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Daniel Frey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/11/2014 12:27 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> That's an awfully complicated command to see what's in the tree. >> >> Do you know about eix? >> >> "eix gentoo-sources" immediately shows you that the only stable version >> is 3.14.14 which is why portage is merging it. The fact that it's a new >> slot lower5 than something you had - that is incidental >> >> > > There's also eshowkw from the app-portage/gentoolkit package, which he > may have installed already. > > Dan >
Thanks for the tip. I was aware of eix, but didn't have it installed, or used it until after Alan suggested it. I do have app-portage/gentoolkit installed, but wasn't aware of nor ever used eshowkw. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll look into it. The grep command line I used my original email seemed to fit the bill at the time given the statements I made above.
