I would like to suggest that eix should be covered (or at least mentioned) in the Gentoo handbook. I think eix really does a great job at improving the usability of portage and hence I think every new Gentoo user (who reads the handbook) should know about. My suggestion would be that it should be mentioned in "A Portage Introduction" [1] and perhaps covered more throughly in "Additional Portage Tools" [2], however, any kind of inclusion of eix in official Gentoo documentation would be an improvement IMHO. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4
(In reply to comment #0) I wouldn't mention in the Portage handbook itself; that is only about official Gentoo-provided tools that come automatically installed with your base system. While eix is handy, its usage is out of place in the Portage handbook. We do, however, maintain a separate portage-utils guide[1]; portage-utils is a set of official portage utilities very similar to eix. We'd be happy to see any eix guide/introduction (doesn't have to be that long, you know) you might want to contribute. :) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-utils.xml
Closing for reasons specified above. If you ever make an eix guide, feel free to attach it to a new bug. :)
(In reply to comment #2) > Closing for reasons specified above. If you ever make an eix guide, feel free > to attach it to a new bug. :) If noone else does it I think I will, however, it may be that I don't get it done until July..
*** Bug 137604 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
