Bug 584854

Summary:	app-portage/eix: allow multiple arguments
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Martin Väth <martin>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	axs, proxy-maint, xmw
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-06-02 14:38:02 UTC

I was pretending to know about some packages without needing to run one command for each... but it seems it is not supported :(

$ eix -e noto symbola unifont
No matches found
$ eix noto symbola unifont
No matches found

Maybe it would be interesting to allow us to do that :)

Thanks a lot

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2016-06-02 14:47:31 UTC

For historical reasons (principle of least surprise, in analogy with the find command, and also since the separation between queries is not easily understandable unless you read the manpage very carefully), the default logical concatenation for several queries is --and (-a)

Set DEFAULT_IS_OR=true (e.g. in some file in /etc/eixrc or in ~/.eixrc) to change this default. With this setting your command will do what you expect.

Alternatively, you can explicitly specify that you want --or (-o) concatenation:
eix -e noto -oe symbola -oe unifont

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-06-06 20:12:37 UTC

Thanks for the tips!