[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because some equery commands search for packages (ideally suited for a regex), and others by design operate on a single package (where using regexes don't make any sense). But that differentiation seems purely artificial. What is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:56 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2006-12-05, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and others dont? Because some equery commands search for packages (ideally suited for a regex), and others by design

[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-05, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # equery list xorg | while read pkg; do equery size =${pkg}; done That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and others dont? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Youth of today! Join

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:16, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2006-12-05, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # equery list xorg | while read pkg; do equery size =${pkg}; done Bah.. The above was just for testing it before I sent it. For all packages it should of course be: # equery

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Bryan Green
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[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-05, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --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 Ørsted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:39:56 -0800, Bryan Green wrote: Because equery isn't really being maintained. Lets just say it leaves a lot of room for improvement... Feel free to supply patches to improve it... Not maintained? I thought it was the tool of choice for what it does. I thought it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 22:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:39:56 -0800, Bryan Green wrote: Because equery isn't really being maintained. Lets just say it leaves a lot of room for improvement... Feel free to supply patches to improve it... Not maintained? I

[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-05, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and others dont? Because some equery commands search for packages (ideally suited for a regex), and others by design operate on a single package (where using regexes don't make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 23:09:33 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: If I recall correctly Bryan is right about that there was a time when equery was being pushed as the grand replacement for the portage-utils. I think portage-utils has improved since then and as the gentoolkit bugs has accumulated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:56, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2006-12-05, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and others dont? Because some equery commands search for packages (ideally suited for a regex), and others by design