inquisitio(1)

Name

inquisitio - A search client for Paludis, the other package mangler

Synopsis

inquisitio [ --search ] [search options] pattern ...

inquisitio --help

Description

inquisitio is a search client for Paludis. It can find packages based upon a number of different criteria including package name, description and homepage, and using a number of different match techniques including simple text match, approximate match and regular expression.

Options

Actions

Selects which basic action to perform. Exactly one action should be specified.

-s, --search

Search for a package

-V, --version

Display program version

-h, --help

Display program help

General options

Options that are relevant for most or all actions.

--log-level

Specify the log level

debug

Show debug output (noisy)

qa

Show QA messages and warnings only (default)

warning

Show warnings only

silent

Suppress all log messages (UNSAFE)

--no-colour

Do not use colour

--no-color

Alias for --no-colour

-E, --environment

Environment specification (class:suffix, both parts optional)

Matching options

Options that control which packages are matched.

-k, --keys

Match using listed metadata keys, rather than name and description

-m, --matcher

Which match algorithm to use

text

Simple text match (default)

pcre

Regular expression match using pcre

exact

Exact text match

-f, --flatten (--no-flatten)

Flatten spec trees, rather than matching against individual items

-e, --enabled-only (--no-enabled-only)

When searching spec trees, only look in enabled subtrees

-n, --not (--no-not)

Select packages that do not match

Filter options

Options that control whether or not a package is considered for matching.

-r, --repository

Matches with this repository name only

--repository-format

Matches with this repository format only

--category

Matches with this category name only

--package

Matches with this package name only

-v, --visible-only (--no-visible-only)

Only consider visible packages

-a, --all-versions (--no-all-versions)

Check all versions, rather than only one (slower)

-K, --kind

Packages of this kind only

installable

Installable packages (default)

installed

Installed packages

all

All packages (default if --repository specified)

Output options

Options that control how output is generated.

--compact (--no-compact)

Display output using one line per entry

-D, --show-dependencies (--no-show-dependencies)

Show dependencies

-A, --show-authors (--no-show-authors)

Show author information

-M, --show-metadata (--no-show-metadata)

Show raw metadata

Deprecated options

Deprecated options.

-c, --config-suffix

Replaced by --environment

Environment

INQUISITIO_OPTIONS

Default command-line options.