It would be nice if portage supported a feature such as: emerge ^sdl* to be able to emerge all packages containing {sdl,SDL} and avoid having to type in X many pkgs on the cli. As an example, mandrake has a feature called urpmf that will find all packages containing whatever name supplied on the command line, and outputs them in a 'copy-pastable' format. In essence a way to make installing multiple packages in the shortest amount of typing possible would be great. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
emerge -qs 'sdl'
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You can do this with normal shell commands, so I don't see a good reason to add that complexity to emerge. Example (adjust to your needs): find /usr/portage -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -name 'sdl*' -printf "%P\n" emerge -p $(find ...)
