Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= writes: > --nextPart5713396.8Ph2VuCcD6 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2006-12-05, Bo =D8rsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # equery list xorg | while read pkg; do equery size =3D"${pkg}"; done > > Bah.. The above was just for testing it before I sent it. For all packages = > it=20 > should of course be: > > # equery list | while read pkg; do equery size =3D"${pkg}"; done > > > That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and > > others dont? > > Because equery isn't really being maintained. Lets just say it leaves a /lo= > t/=20 > of room for improvement... Feel free to supply patches to improve it... > > =2D-=20 > Bo Andresen >
Not maintained? I thought it was the tool of choice for what it does. I thought it was intended to replace the 'q' utilities. I actually just started having a problem with it the other day, using the 'list' command. It gets upset when I use the '-p' or '-o' option to list, unless the user happens to be root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery list -i nvidia-drivers [ Searching for package 'nvidia-drivers' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9742 (0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery list -p nvidia-drivers [ Searching for package 'nvidia-drivers' in all categories among: ] !!! The query 'nvidia-drivers' does not appear to be a valid regular expression ece06 ~ # equery list -p gentoolkit [ Searching for package 'gentoolkit' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ~] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2 (0) [I--] [ ] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.5 (0) * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3_pre1 (0) [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3_pre2 (0) [-P-] [M~] app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.1 (0) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list