On Monday 15 June 2009 14:28:46 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to
> understand all the info contained in its ouput.
eix's man page always seemed to me to break rule #1 of user-interfaces:
"Do not expose the underlying implementation in the interface."
> A quick search on `output' seems to miss it.
You want to search on "\!t" in this case
> Things like found in this output:
>
> eix ^apr$
>
> * dev-libs/apr
> Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t
> 1.3.3!t 1.3.5!t {debug doc ipv6 urandom}
> Homepage: http://apr.apache.org/
> Description: Apache Portable Runtime Library
>
>
> What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean?
RESTRICT="test"
You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT"
> Also, is it odd to have older versions under `~'?
No, it just means the maintainer didn't change anything in the older unstable
versions when marking the later one stable.
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