Created attachment 411780 [details, diff] portage-utils-0.56-qatom-verbose-fix.patch Depending on whether SLOT is found, qatom -v will print out a different number of sub-atomical parts. It would be nice to be able to parse that output without needing to check how many it printed.
this patch is obviously correct, so merged: http://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage-utils.git/commit/?id=e275dfedc41cecf51d96484eb34505d12dca5678 thinking bigger, i've never really been happy with the ad-hoc output. i was thinking something like a -F/--format flag would be nice so you could extract the exact parts you wanted all the time. wdyt ?
