On Monday 17 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a > million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for > the options, I wanted to have a option line setting > but I couldn't tell if it was like > > PRINT_SLOTS=yes or > PRINT_SLOTS yes or > PRINT_SLOTS="yes" or > PRINT_SLOTS "yes" > > There are other permutations. Howcome the man page doesn't give > something as obvious as that? Darn huge man page, after I initially > found the PRINT_SLOTS defintion, it took me 10 more minutes to find > out that it was supposed to go into /etc/eix-sync. It gives a great > amoount of info, but maybe it could stand some better organization, > to let things get found.
The format is none of those :-) It actually looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/movies $ sudo eix --dump | grep SLOT DIFF_NO_SLOTS='false' FORMAT_BEFORE_SLOT_IUSE='\n\t\{(blue)' FORMAT_AFTER_SLOT_IUSE='()\}' COLOR_SLOTS='red,1' COLORED_SLOTS='true' COLON_SLOTS='false' UPGRADE_TO_HIGHEST_SLOT='true' PRINT_SLOTS='true' -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list