On Thursday 03 May 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > I have no need to see that full list of USE flags between braces on > > the "Available versions" line - the information is already on > > the "Installed versions" line. > > Maybe stating the obvious but it is in both places only for packages > that you already have installed. ;)
It is obvious and you did state it :-) I can see why the feature is there, and why some might find it useful, I just prefer to have it switched off. Yeah, I know, I'm weird... > > Which config option disables this display? > > EIX_PRINT_IUSE='false' Thanks, life is now good again :-) > > p.s. I did rtfm, and am still busy with it. It's just that "man eix > > and /etc/eixrc" seems to be having a make-the-longest-docs > > competition with "man bash" ... > > Now the question is if it can be made conditional on whether the > package is already installed... ;) Doesn't that defeat the purpose though? Or perhaps you mean to display the Available list if the package isn't installed yet and the Installed version otherwise. I could be persuaded to configure eix like that if it were supported. alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
