Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Equery used to behave like emerge does now, and maybe always has. > Really? Equery used to do fuzzy search by default, where it returns > package that don't actually contain the search string? > > What I liked about emerge --search, is that it would show you both the > installed version and the available version. I never figured out how > to get equery to do that. > > -- > Grant >
Equery used to do that but it was changed a few years or so ago. It requires a more precise search now or the use of wildcards. Look at the output of mine in previous reply and you can also see what is installed, what is available and it even shows if a package is masked or keyworded. The command and options are equery list -p <package name> to get that. If you use overlays a lot, add -o to that or -po will work. Equery is my go to tool since I run some things stable and some things unstable. Dale :-) :-)
