I'm adding bugs for non-trivial changes to equery now that we've got a few release candidates out the door just to have a place for people to discuss it if they don't agree with my changes. This bug is to explain changes to category filtering in a recent commit to my local svn, http://genscripts.googlecode.com/svn. As of gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc6, three modules: check, list and size still had a local option, -c, --category, which allowed those three modules to pre-filter a smaller list before searching for the package-ver, which could really speed up package searches and allow users to do things like listing all category. There are a few issues: * only 3 modules have it * it takes more typing and so is probably underused. * with the latest equery, which allows multiple package input, you run into a problem like: # Check all installed packages in category dev-python and python itself: $ equery k -c dev-python '*' dev-lang/python [ Checking dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r2 ] * 435 out of 435 files passed [snip] [ Checking dev-python/wxpython-2.6.4.0-r2 ] * 757 out of 757 files passed !!! No package found matching dev-lang/python The category filter affected the second package, even though it had its owns category. Since you literally have to use the new globbing support anyway, there's a better way to do the above: $ equery k 'dev-python/*' dev-lang/python * Checking dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r2 ... 435 out of 435 files passed [snip] * Checking dev-python/wxpython-2.6.4.0-r2 ... 757 out of 757 files passed * Checking dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1 ... 4024 out of 4024 files passed Benefits to doing it all with globbing are: * just as fast as -c, --category * simpler command syntax, much more flexible * almost all modules have support for this * simplifies the code complexity -c, --category option is removed completed in r13. Objections?
No objections, we just need to document it.
This change has been documented and uploaded to bug 269071 for a while, so closing.
