https://github.com/vaeth/eix

eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree
https://github.com/vaeth/eix

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eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vaeth/eix
• Owner: vaeth
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2014-01-31T17:52:51.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-10T16:36:55.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-19T16:34:09.430Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: database, fast, find, gentoo, gentoo-metadata, packages, portage, tree
• Language: C++
• Size: 8.1 MB
• Stars: 163
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 18
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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Welcome to



eix is a tool for the Gentoo Linux

portage system. It uses indexing to allow quick searches through the package tree.

Some reasons for using eix:



	
Fast indexing and searching

	
Highly configurable output-format (with its own "language")

	
Provides more information than most other search utilities (e.g. shows every available version, USE flags of available and emerged versions, ...)

	
Shows stability/mask status of versions and how your local settings change it

	
Helps you to manage your local /etc/portage/package.* settings in several ways (e.g. by finding "obsolete" entries by various criteria)

	
Can import eix-files from other systems, e.g. to get a catalogue of overlays

	
Cli with logical AND/OR (and braces), multiple matching algorithms (i.e. fuzzy search using levenshtein distance) and more



eix is in the portage tree, so you can simply install it with

emerge app-portage/eix

The most current version of eix is always available as "HEAD" in the git master branch.

To get this version, emerge dev-vcs/git and then use the command

git clone git://github.com/vaeth/eix

For bugreports, please use the GitHub or the Gentoo bug system.

If you want to reach the current maintainer, please use email.


Best regards .. your code monkeys :)


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emerge -s|-S

	
qsearch (app-portage/portage-utils)

	
esearch (app-portage/esearch)