man equery isn't any help with this, nor is anything else I can think of. What's the fast way to get a package description, comparable to qpkg -i, now that qpkg is deprecated? I do /not/ want a full emerge -s, with possibly many packages and their descriptions returned, just a simple description of the package I'm requesting info on. This is a serious regression in functionality, since I use this type of query often when I'm checking out packages. I expected the functionality would be there by the time qpkg got deprecated out of use, but I don't see it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge info to be attached
Created attachment 57260 [details] emerge info output
emerge esearch && eupdatedb && man esearch ;-) I suggest that you gunzip /usr/share/doc/esearch*/eupdatedb.cron.gz to /etc/cron.daily and chmod +x it to have the index refreshed on a regular basis. >I do /not/ want a full emerge -s, with possibly many packages and their >descriptions returned, just a simple description of the package I'm requesting >info on. I don
emerge esearch && eupdatedb && man esearch ;-) I suggest that you gunzip /usr/share/doc/esearch*/eupdatedb.cron.gz to /etc/cron.daily and chmod +x it to have the index refreshed on a regular basis. >I do /not/ want a full emerge -s, with possibly many packages and their >descriptions returned, just a simple description of the package I'm requesting >info on. I don´t understand the difference, qpkg -i returned as many packages matching the query as emerge -s...
equery just isn't an adequate replacement for qpkg. I use qpkg daily to summarise available packages as well as installed ones. More seriously, the Depend function of equery has not yet been implemented, and I use that often too. If you insist on removing qpkg from the standard gentoolkit, please include proper installation instructions for qpkg in place of the contemptuous "if you *really* want to use them". Until then I will be keeping ">app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0" in /etc/portage/package.mask. While I'm at it, please make the -U parameter to qpkg work. Last time I tried it, it was apparently ignored.
Comment #3: Symlink /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg to somewhere in your path, if you want it. As for the second one, requesting new features for a deprecated package won
Comment #3: Symlink /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg to somewhere in your path, if you want it. As for the second one, requesting new features for a deprecated package won´t attract much development effort, I´m pretty sure. :-) While talking about this, there is a typo in man esearch --verbose, -b Give a lot of additional information (slow!) should obviously be -v Error: option -b not recognized (see --help for all options)
I'm not asking for a new feature, only that an existing one be made to work.
Oh, and of course I should have thanked you for the symlink advice. Sorry Jakub.
re comment #2, last sentence, the difference between qpkg -i and emerge -s: I guess you are right, it shows the same packages, but in a different format, more concise if all one is looking for is the description, as finding what's installed and/or available is a simple matter once one knows what package one is looking for. I guess the ideal would be something less than emerge -s, less than qpkg -i, but more than emerge -sq, having /just/ the package name and the description. Maybe it's time to have degrees of q and v, so single q shuts off the version info, but leaves the description, double q emerge -sqq produces just the names, as single q emerge -sq now does.
Finally merged esearch. That compact mode (-c) does /exactly/ what I want! I hadn't merged it b4 because I thought the db would take too long to update. Turns out with my gig of memory, if I do it after an emerge sync, the info it needs is already in cache, and the update is less than 30 seconds worth! =8^) Not bad at all, after sitting there waiting for the rsync and metadata update steps! It's already added to my "esync" script. =8^) I think this is now resolved/invalid. I believe esearch just became one of my favorite Gentoo apps!
