On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Ok, I see your point and I agree with you. Thanks for the advice... I'll work on making the backend easier to maintain and extend while keeping the syntax as is. I still want to clean up the UI a little bit, but I will discuss anything I'm unsure about on the list. Thanks for bringing me back to reality :) -Doug
