Re: [gentoo-user] Portage irritant

2019-06-22 Thread throwd
* Philip Webb Portage regularly demands config files be update : no problem, I always use 'etc-update'. However sometimes, it then says : root:523 ~> etc-update Scanning Configuration files... Automerging trivial changes in: /etc/nanorc Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) Whyever doe

Re: [gentoo-user] query ebuild fields

2019-06-21 Thread throwd
* Ian Zimmerman [2019-06-21 10:27:58 -0700]: Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around? You could use portageq portageq metadata /usr/por