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carlos123
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 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:20 am Post subject: Limiting packages emerged from output of "emerge search |
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I have noticed that an "emerge search <package_name>" will sometimes return multiple packages.
For example the output from "emerge search aspell" shows me lots of packages that are available for aspell.
If I do an "emerge aspell" I am concered that packages such as the Catalan and Greek dictionaries (to name just two of many others) will get installed to my system when I don't need them.
Is there a way to limit the packages that get installed when an "emerge search <package_name>" returns so many? Will they all be installed if I do an "emerge <package_name>"?
Conversely is there a way to fine tune the unmerge process such that I can unmerge a specific dictionary installed with aspell (for example)?
Thanks.
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rbonthond
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 12:39 pm Post subject: Re: Limiting packages emerged from output of "emerge se |
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| carlos123 wrote: | | If I do an "emerge aspell" I am concered that packages such as the Catalan and Greek dictionaries (to name just two of many others) will get installed to my system when I don't need them. |
emerge aspell will only install aspell, you have to install the dictionaries yourself, e.g:
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emerge aspell
emerge aspell-nl
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| carlos123 wrote: | | Will they all be installed if I do an "emerge <package_name>"? |
no
| carlos123 wrote: | | Conversely is there a way to fine tune the unmerge process such that I can unmerge a specific dictionary installed with aspell (for example)? |
emerge will only emerge what you tell it to unmerge, emerge unmerge aspell-nl will only uninstall the dutch dictionary, not the others.
That also means that if you unmerge aspell, it will not unmerge the dictionaries ! try emerge --clean -p to see what are left-overs. |
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rac
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: Limiting packages emerged from output of "emerge se |
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| carlos123 wrote: | | Is there a way to limit the packages that get installed when an "emerge search <package_name>" returns so many? |
Unlike other uses of "emerge", such as installing software, search uses regular expressions. If you wish to limit search to exactly matching, use something like: | Code: | | $ emerge -s ^aspell$ |
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