Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...
On 3 December 2011, at 10:14, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > ... > is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related > applications without without being burried under audio related > system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) > "this application does not supprt audio but only imageing" > > I want the full dexcription, not only the heade line… I think your best bet will be something like: eix -c -C '*sound*' Unfortunately there are c 385 items in the media-sound category, and I would guess libraries will be mixed in with apps amongst those. You could `grep -v library`, but then you'd miss out on the midi player that's packaged with its library (wildmidi). Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...
I'd first do a "ls /usr/portage/ | grep sound\|audio" to find out audio categories within the portage tree.
Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:14 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related > applications without without being burried under audio related > system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) > "this application does not supprt audio but only imageing" > > I want the full dexcription, not only the heade line... > Here's one way that I like to look for these, Meino: eix --stable -c -S audio Obviously there's no easy way to get a noise-free listing of what you want, but I've often found looking for text in the description with the -S is a useful method. -- Bill Longman
Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...
Bill Longman wrote: is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related applications without without being burried under audio related system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) "this application does not supprt audio but only imageing" I want the full dexcription, not only the heade line... Here's one way that I like to look for these, Meino: eix --stable -c -S audio Obviously there's no easy way to get a noise-free listing of what you want, but I've often found looking for text in the description with the -S is a useful method. well, there is this: (don't forget the trailing slash!) `eix -c media-sound/` but for a whole category you'll definitely want to use '-c', there is so much... but all audio related even without audio in the name or description. Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...
On 12/06/2011 06:55 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Bill Longman wrote: is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related applications without without being burried under audio related system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) "this application does not supprt audio but only imageing" I want the full dexcription, not only the heade line... Here's one way that I like to look for these, Meino: eix --stable -c -S audio Obviously there's no easy way to get a noise-free listing of what you want, but I've often found looking for text in the description with the -S is a useful method. well, there is this: (don't forget the trailing slash!) `eix -c media-sound/` but for a whole category you'll definitely want to use '-c', there is so much... but all audio related even without audio in the name or description. If you know your application lives in a specific category, then you should use the "-C category". But Meino's question specifically asked how to get ANY audio related application out of all of portage. That means you have to search WITHOUT a category, unless of course you are doing searches through each individual category in search of some string. The lowercase -c compresses the output to include the header. The uppercase -C forces a category. You can use wildcards on categories, for instance, "-C sci-* ks" returns entries from sci-{chemistry,electronics,libs,visualization}.