On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:44, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > keanu wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>This gives 402 packages. Surely that can't be right for number of > >>packages in the category 'system'. > > > > i don't know what file it is in but you can do > > > > emerge -pve --nodeps system | grep ebuild | wc -l > > which gives 68 for me > > Thanks. I simplified that to: > > emerge -Oevp system | grep -c ebuild > > It seems it cannot be done any faster e.g. from a file.
A faster way would be to use a regular expression on /etc/make.profile/packages to look for lines beginning with "*". However, this will return wrong results if a particular package is not installed for any reason. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
