Base Options

-h, --help

Show this help message and exit. To get more information see the related man page.

--version

Show this program’s version information and exit.

When running from within a git repo or a version installed from git the latest commit hash and date will be shown.

--debug

Enable debug checks and show verbose debug output.

-q, --quiet

Suppress non-error, informational messages.

-v, --verbose

Increase the verbosity of various output.

--color BOOLEAN

Toggle colored output support. This can be used to forcibly enable color support when piping output or other situations where stdout is not a tty.

Config Options

--config CONFIG_PATH

The path to a custom pkgcore config file or portage config directory can be given to override loading the default system config.

Alternatively, an argument of ‘false’ or ‘no’ will skip loading the system config entirely if one exists.

--domain DOMAIN

custom pkgcore domain to use for this operation

Repository Matching Options

options controlling which repos to inspect

--raw

Disable configuration filtering that forces raw dependencies to be used, rather than the dependencies rendered via your USE configuration. Primarily useful for people who need to look under the hood- ebuild devs, PM tool authors, etc. Note this option ignores –domain if is specified.

--unfiltered

Disable all package filtering mechanisms such as ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, ACCEPT_LICENSE, and package.mask.

--virtuals {only,disable}

This option requires one of two arguments, either ‘only’ or ‘disable’, which causes only virtuals to be matched or disables virtuals matching entirely, respectively.

By default, virtuals are included during matching.

-r, --repo REPO

Select the repo to search in for matches. This includes all the configured repos in repos.conf as well as the special keywords binpkg, provided, and vdb that search the configured binary package repo, package.provided, and installed packages, respectively.

By default, all configured repos except the vdb will be searched when this option isn’t specified.

-E, --ebuild-repos

Search within all ebuild repos, all non-ebuild repos are skipped.

-B, --binary-repos

Search within all binary repos, all non-binary repos are skipped.

-I, --installed

Search within installed packages (alias for ‘–repo vdb’).

-A, --all-repos

Search all available repos including the vdb.

Package Matching Options

Each option specifies a restriction packages must match. Specifying the same option twice means “or” unless stated otherwise. Specifying multiple types of restrictions means “and” unless stated otherwise.

TARGET

extended atom matching of pkgs

--all

Match all packages which is equivalent to “pquery *”. Note that if no query options are specified, this option is enabled.

--has-use has_use

exact string match on a USE flag

--license license

exact match on a license

--live

match packages which are have PROPERTIES=”live”

--non-live

match packages which are don’t have PROPERTIES=”live”

--revdep REVDEP

An alias for ‘–restrict-revdep atom –print-revdep atom’, but note that –print-revdep is slow so use –restrict-revdep if you just need a list.

--revdep-pkgs REVDEP_PKGS

An alias for ‘–restrict-revdep-pkgs atom –print-revdep atom’, but note that –print-revdep is slow so use –restrict-revdep if you just need a list.

--restrict-revdep restrict_revdep

dependency on an atom

--restrict-revdep-pkgs restrict_revdep_pkgs

dependency on pkgs that match a specific atom

-S, --description description

regexp search on description and longdescription

--eapi eapi

match packages using a given EAPI

--owns owns

exact match on an owned file/dir

--owns-re owns_re

like “owns” but using a regexp for matching

--maintainer maintainer

regex to search for maintainers

--maintainer-name maintainer_name

comma-separated list of maintainer name regexes to search for

--maintainer-email maintainer_email

comma-separated list of maintainer email regexes to search for

--environment-re environment_re

regexp search of lines in environment.bz2

--pkgset pkgset

find packages that match the given package set (world for example)

-u, --upgrade

match installed packages without best slotted version

Output Options

-1, --first

stop when first match is found

-a, --atom

Output valid package atoms, e.g. =cat/pkg-3 instead of cat/pkg-3.

Note that this option implies –cpv and has no effect if used with –no-version.

--cpv

Display output in the format of ‘category/package-version’ which is done by default, this option forces the output format if another output option (such as –contents) alters it.

-R

print the repo of the package

--slot

print the slot of the package

-n, --no-version

collapse multiple matching versions together

--min

show only the lowest version for each package

--max

show only the highest version for each package

--blame

shorthand for –attr maintainers

--size

display size of all files owned by the package

--contents

list files owned by the package

--highlight-dep HIGHLIGHT_DEP

highlight dependencies matching this atom

--print-revdep PRINT_REVDEP

print what condition(s) trigger a dep

-F, --format format

Use the given format string to print package attributes. The format uses standard Python format string syntax (see Format specification mini-language for details), with the all attributes of --attr.

--attr attribute

Print the given attribute’s value. This option can be specified multiple times.

Valid attributes: all, alldepends, allmetadata, bdepend, category, cbuild, chost, ctarget, defined_phases, depend, description, distfiles, eapi, environment, fetchables, files, fullver, homepage, idepend, inherited, iuse, keywords, license, longdescription, maintainers, package, path, pdepend, properties, raw_alldepends, raw_bdepend, raw_depend, raw_idepend, raw_pdepend, raw_rdepend, rdepend, repo, required_use, restrict, revision, slot, source_repository, subslot, uris, use, version

--force-attr attribute

Like –attr but accepts any string as attribute name instead

of only explicitly supported names.

--one-attr attribute

Print the given attribute’s value, while suppressing all other output. All attributes of --attr are accepted.

--force-one-attr attribute

like –one-attr but accepts any string as attribute name instead of only explicitly supported names