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[mdarge]

Hi, if I use emerge --search I don't get what I want. How do I get:

emerge -a media-sound/*

So a list of all packages in media-sound (dev-libs/ or any other branch) is shown. 

[cardinal]

Reference the man page for emerge:

ACTIONS

--search , -s

If you want to include the category into the  search string, prepend an @

Example :

List all packages in media-sound category:

$ emerge -s "@media-sound" 

 

[lazlo.vii]

You could bypass Portage entirely:

ls -l /var/git/meta-repo/kits/media-kit/media-libs/

I know that doesn't answer your question about searching Portage but it is very simple and straight forward.

[mdarge]

On 7/17/2019 at 6:54 AM, lazlo.vii said:

You could bypass Portage entirely:

ls -l /var/git/meta-repo/kits/media-kit/media-libs/

I know that doesn't answer your question about searching Portage but it is very simple and straight forward.

Your answer is quite  good but the other one is better. 

[vchipk985]

Side note:

You can use eix [app-portage/eix] too.