On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:54:38 +0900 "Douglas Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $ equery list -h > List all packages matching a query pattern > Syntax: > list <local-opts> pkgspec > <local-opts> is either of: > -i, --installed - search installed packages (default) > -I, --exclude-installed - do not search installed packages > -p, --portage-tree - also search in portage tree (/usr/portage) > -o, --overlay-tree - also search in overlay tree > (/usr/portage/local/layman/wschlich-testing > /usr/portage/local/layman/xwing /usr/portage/local/layman/genscripts > /usr/portage/local/layman/wschlich-testing > /usr/portage/local/layman/xwing /usr/portage/local/layman/genscripts > /usr/local/portage) > -f, --full-regex - query is a regular expression > -e, --exact-name - list only those packages that exactly > match -d, --duplicates - list only installed duplicate packages > > That's an awful lot of "searching" there for something that's > definitely not a search. List is really ambiguous, but whatever. So replace "search" with "list" or "look" in the help output. > I understand the point of having a stable interface, but this is > probably the most widely recommended tool on the forums and #gentoo. > Stability is not a good enough reason to let it bit rot. Wasn't a more > unified tool interface also one of the original goals of gentoolkit? I never said that you should let it bitrot, just that changing the syntax for IMO questionable reasons shouldn't be done lightly. I was stictly talking about the user interface, not the API, in case that wasn't obvious. Marius
