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Bug 528334 - app-portage/eix should offer options to show or query longdescription and maintainer
Summary: app-portage/eix should offer options to show or query longdescription and mai...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Third-Party Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Martin Väth
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: 572662 583990 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2014-11-05 17:11 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2016-10-19 20:20 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-11-05 17:11:52 UTC 
See recent thread in gentoo-dev:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.cvs/729967/focus=93592

eix misses a feature that would allow to show (or query) fields like "longdescription" that appear in metadata.xml.
Comment 1 Martin Väth 2014-11-06 10:57:18 UTC 
The eix database contains only metadata (i.e. the information stored in metadata/ directories).

The way eix obtains this data (e.g. reading directly from metadata/ or from /var/cache/edb/ (e.g. from the sqlite database if portage uses sqlite backend), reading from another eix database etc.) does not require/guarantee that metadata.xml can be read.

Thus, it would need a complete restructure of eix and the way how eix works to read/parse metadata.xml (not to speak that eix currently contains no xml parser).

I don't think that it is reasonable to extend eix in such a way.
Comment 2 Martin Väth 2016-01-23 13:25:26 UTC 
*** Bug 572662 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Martin Väth 2016-10-19 20:20:52 UTC 
*** Bug 583990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***