eix

Practical eix cheat sheet covering installation, local/remote database sync, overlay queries, upgradeable package checks, world/profile selection helpers, and power-user flags for auditing USE/KEYWORDS/SLOTS/DEPEND metadata in the Gentoo tree

Install eix

emerge -av app-portage/eix

Print only names"

eix -# libva

Dump settings in use

eix --dump

Print useflags NOT in use

eix --print-all-useflags \ 
  |grep -o "\-.*" \
  |grep -v "_" \
  |grep -v "+"

Print in percent of all available packages in tree we installed

echo "$((`eix --only-names -I ´ \
    |wc -l` * 100 / `eix --only-names \ 
    |wc -l`))% of 100% packages from Gentoo Linux is installed"

List all installed packages

eix-installed -a

Search for cached package

eix package

Download remote database

eix-remote update1

Create/Sync remote database

eix-remote add1

Search for custom overlays

eix -R foo

Sync Portage Tree

eix > /dev/null 2>&1
if eix_status=$?; then
  eix-sync
else
  emerge --sync
fi

Print all packages that is installed from custom overlays

eix -c --installed-overlay

List Upgradeable Packages

eix --installed --upgrade | grep -o '\[U].*'

Preview All Packages That Has Been Installed From An Overlay

eix -c --installed-overlay; exit

Dump variables to stdout

eix --dump

Dump default values of variables

eix --dump-defaults

Print the expanded value of a variable

eix --print

Print all variable names known to –print

eix --known-vars

Print all EAPI used in some version

eix --print-all-eapis

Print all IUSE/REQUIRED_USE used in some version

eix --print-all-useflags

Print all KEYWORDS used in some version

eix --print-all-keywords

Print all SLOT strings used in some version

eix --print-all-slots

Print all LICENSE strings used in some package

eix --print-all-licenses

Print all words occurring in some {,R,P}DEPEND

eix --print-all-depends

Print the world sets

eix --print-world-sets

Print all paths of current profile

eix --print-profile-paths

Print all ansi color palettes

eix --256

Print ansi color palettes for foreground (dark)

eix --256d

Print ansi color palette dark (normal)

eix --256d0

Print ansi color palette dark (bright)

eix --256d1

Print ansi color palettes for foreground (light)

eix --256l

Print ansi color palette light (normal)

eix --256l0

Print ansi color palette light (bright)

eix --256l1

Print ansi color palette for background

eix --256b

Match packages installed in several versions

eix --multi-installed

Match duplicated packages

eix --dup-packages

Match packages with duplicated versions

eix --dup-versions

Match packages with a nontrivial slot

eix --slotted

Match packages with two different slots

eix --slots

Match packages without best slotted version

+: settings from LOCAL_PORTAGE_CONFIG=true
-: settings from LOCAL_PORTAGE_CONFIG=false

eix --upgrade[+-]

Match packages with a stable version

eix --stable[+-]

Match packages with a testing or stable version

eix --testing[+-]

Match packages with a non-masked version

eix --non-masked[+-]

Match @system packages

eix --system[+-]

Match @profile packages

eix --profile[+-]

Match packages with a non-stable installed version

eix --installed-unstable

Match packages with a testing installed version

eix --installed-testing

Match packages with a masked installed version

eix --installed-masked

Match packages of world file or @system

eix --world-file

Match packages of a world set or @system

eix --world-set

Match packages of @world (file, set or @system)

eix --world

Match packages of world file

eix --selected-file

Match packages of a world set

eix --selected-set

Match packages of @selected (world file or set)

eix --selected

Match packages with *.tbz2, *.gpkg.tar, or *.xpak

eix --binary

Match packages with at least NR --binary files

eix --multi-binary NR

Match packages from nonvirtual overlays

eix --nonvirtual

Match packages from virtual overlays

eix --virtual

Match packages from overlays

eix --overlay

Match packages from OVERLAY

eix --in-overlay OVERLAY

Match packages only in OVERLAY

eix --only-in-overlay OVERLAY

Installed from overlays

eix --installed-overlay Match packages

Packages installed from OVERLAY

eix --installed-from-overlay OVERLAY

Packages with an installed version provided by some overlay

eix --installed-in-some-overlay

Packages with an installed version provided from OVERLAY

eix --installed-in-overlay OVERLAY

Match packages with RESTRICT=fetch

eix --restrict-fetch

Match packages with RESTRICT=mirror

eix --restrict-mirror

Match packages with RESTRICT=primaryuri

eix --restrict-primaryuri

Match packages with RESTRICT=binchecks

eix --restrict-binchecks

Match packages with RESTRICT=strip

eix --restrict-strip

Match packages with RESTRICT=test

eix --restrict-test

Match packages with RESTRICT=userpriv

eix --restrict-userpriv

Match packages with RESTRICT=installsources

eix --restrict-installsources

Match packages with RESTRICT=bindist

eix --restrict-bindist

Match packages with RESTRICT=parallel

eix --restrict-parallel

Match packages with PROPERTIES=interactive

eix --properties-interactive

Match packages with PROPERTIES=live

eix --properties-live

Match packages with PROPERTIES=virtual

eix --properties-virtual

Match packages with PROPERTIES=set

eix --properties-set

Special

Test non matching

Before other output, print non-matching entries of /etc/portage/package.* and non-matching names of installed packages; this option is best combined with -T to clean up /etc/portage/package.*

eix -t  --test-non-matching

Don't read unguessable slots of installed packages

eix --quick

Always read slots of installed packages

eix --care

Always read deps of installed packages

eix --deps-installed

Use another cache-file instead of /var/cache/eix/portage.eix

eix --cache-file

Use remote cache-file /var/cache/eix/remote.eix

eix --remote

Use remote cache-file /var/cache/eix/remote2.eix

eix --remote2

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