Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:59:42 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: eix dev-lang/python I see that it's highlighting version ~2.5.4-r2, which is what I have installed. If the 2.5.4-r2 version is masked by keyword, why's it installed on my system? :) It's not keyword-masked according to eix here

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Sebastian Günther said: emerge eix man eix Cool. I installed it and ran update-eix. When I run eix dev-lang/python I see that it's highlighting version ~2.5.4-r2, which is what I have installed. If the 2.5.4-r2 version is masked by keyword, why's it installed on my system? :) I

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
090426 Michael P. Soulier wrote: I installed eix and ran update-eix. When I run 'eix dev-lang/python' it's highlighting version ~2.5.4-r2, which is what I have installed. If the 2.5.4-r2 version is masked by keyword, why's it installed on my system? What I get is : root:502 root eix

[gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, what the heck is that? So I look at the ebuild file... msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 .5.ebuild DESCRIPTION=Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg Great, that helps. Still,

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Michael P. Soulier (msoul...@digitaltorque.ca) [25.04.09 20:59]: So, is grep the best approach to answer, what the heck is that? :) No, eix is: emerge eix man eix Mike HTH Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. | _ ASCII ribbon campaign

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:59:09 Michael P. Soulier wrote: Often when I see something like dev-libs/libassuan, I say, what the heck is that? So I look at the ebuild file... msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 .5.ebuild DESCRIPTION=Standalone