linux.gentoo.user

Chuck Robey wrote:
>
> It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d foound
> several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what slots are, so
> I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs anywhere I can locate IN
> Gentoo that tell you HOW to use slots. So, now I know that the parens
> signal the slot info, but how do I choose them, select one over
> anther, adn
> even to search for them in emerge? You gave nice examples, but do you see
> why I so much dislike examples when they come INSTEAD OF the full syntax
> description? Cause then you only learn what the example wants to
> show, and
> people don't present exhaustive examples, because (reasonably enough)
> examples aren't meant to be exhaustive, that's what the syntax
> explanations
> are for. I just wish that a rule would be promulgated in Gentoo
> documentation that no one could be allowed to present an example unless
> they'd gotten out a syntax explanation first. It won't happen, but I wish
> it would.
>
>

Well, what is sloted is determined by the devs not us. I'm not sure
that you can tell something to be slotted if it is not set up to be
slotted. So, you don't have to worry about how to make something
slotted. If it needs to be slotted, it will be done by the devs in the
portage tree.

I use equery a lot myself. Some use eix. Your preference. Use
whichever you like. To find out what version(s) of a package you have
installed, just do a equery list foo and it will list the version(s)
that are installed. If you do a equery list -p foo then it will list
what is installed followed by all the version(s) that are available.
List means for it to list the ones installed. The -p from my
understanding means to list all the packages in portage.

I see your point about examples. I try to give a example then explain
what each function does when needed. I sort of dislike the man pages
too. Most of them may as well be Greek. No offense to the Greeks on
this list tho.

Dale

:-) :-)
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