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: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html Description: rxvt clone with xft and unicode support License: GPL-3 rattus ~ # its less a search than a database lookup like the locate command so its very fast rattus ~ # esearch app-portage/esearch [ Results for search key : app-portage/esearch ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-portage/esearch Latest version available: 1.3-r2 Latest version installed: 1.3-r2 Size of downloaded files: 18 kB Homepage: https://github.com/fuzzyray/esearch Description: Replacement for 'emerge --search' with search-index License: GPL-2 rattus ~ # On 22/6/19 1:42 am, Mick wrote: > 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 x11-terms/rxvt-unicode. I don't know what it >> is (no, really! :-P ) and I sure as h*ll don't know the exact version >> number I have. I want to visit the upstream website to learn more. >> >> I know the following command will mostly do it, but it will >> occassionally show too much and scroll the relevant result off the >> screen. Also, being a search, it is much slower than necessary. >> >> emerge --search --quiet n x11-terms/rxvt-unicode > I use 'eix -l <package>' to get this sort of information. I'm sure there are > cleverer options to use with eix, so it only prints the database fields you > want, but the above has served most of my needs well. Install app-portage/ > eix, then run eix-update and from then on you can use eix-sync to sync > portage > and/or overlays with a mirror and search for the package you want. > > rxvt-unicode is a terminal emulator, like xterm, konsole, terminology, xfce4- > terminal , etc. which you use within your xsession, instead of having to > switch over to a tty. > > There's even a page about it - I can't recall having read before, but it > looks > quite detailed: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator > > HTH
