On Thursday 19 February 2009 18:58:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Paul Hartman > > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Here's one for the zen masters of portage. There is a statistical > >> programming language called 'R'. > >> > >> http://www.r-project.org/ > >> > >> Is it in portage? If so how do I find it without all the problems of > >> weeding through 1000's of lines of useless stuff? > > > > dev-lang/R > > OK, so that depends that I know R is a language. That's probably a > reasonable assumption. > > Is there a way to do this with emerge or eix that matches the name exactly?
# eix -e R * dev-lang/R Available versions: 2.7.1 2.7.2 (~)2.8.1 {X bash-completion cairo debug doc java jpeg lapack minimal nls png readline tk} Homepage: http://www.r-project.org/ Description: Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics However, eix is normally case-insensitive. When used with -e (exact match) it is case sensitive. Trawling through the enormous eix man page looking or the case insensitive exact match is left as an exercise for the reader. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com