Currently: etcat -d nautilus [ Results for search key : nautilus ] * gnome-base/control-center-2.4.0 >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 * net-www/epiphany-1.0 >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 * net-www/epiphany-1.0.2 >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 I would like to see: etcat -d nautilus [ Results for search key : nautilus ] * [ I] gnome-base/control-center-2.4.0 (2) >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 > [ ] net-www/epiphany-1.0 (0) >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 < [ ~ ] net-www/epiphany-1.0.3 (0) >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 < [ ] net-www/epiphany-1.0.4 (0) >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 * [ ~I] net-www/epiphany-1.0.6 (0) >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.2 M [M ] media-video/lumiere-0.4 (0) gnome-base/nautilus - [ ] gnome-extra/nautilus-gtkhtml-0.3.2 (0) >=gnome-base/nautilus-1.1.10 showing installed status, maskedness, testing, version comparison to installed version, all with appropriate colouring.
Created attachment 21698 [details, diff] Patch to provide suggested functionality oh, and SLOTting as well. Most of this patch is copied from etcat -v, the rest from emerge and portage.py.
patch doesn't apply cleanly against etcat from gentoolkit-0.2 and I don't want to add new features to it anyway, but concentrate on getting equery stable and fully implemented.