Re: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields

2019-06-21 Thread Bill Kenworthy
and rattus ~ # esearch x11-terms/rxvt-unicode [ Results for search key : x11-terms/rxvt-unicode ] [ Applications found : 1 ] *  x11-terms/rxvt-unicode   Latest version available: 9.21   Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]   Size of downloaded files: 903 kB   Homepage:   

Re: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields

2019-06-21 Thread throwd
* Ian Zimmerman [2019-06-21 10:27:58 -0700]: Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? You could use portageq portageq metadata

Re: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields

2019-06-21 Thread Urs Schütz
On 6/21/19 7:27 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? ... Eix is faster for such things. You can format the

Re: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields

2019-06-21 Thread Mick
On Friday, 21 June 2019 18:27:58 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from > an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the > framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? > > Example: I have installed

Re: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields

2019-06-21 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/21/19 11:27 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? Does equery meta not show what you want? % equery

[gentoo-user] query ebuild fields

2019-06-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? Example: I have installed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode. I don't know what it is (no, really! :-P ) and I