Re: [gentoo-dev] portage: package queries

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:18:34AM +0200, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 05:09:32PM +0200, Peter Kadau wrote:
> > hi !
> > 
> > is there some script/whatever in the portage system,
> > to do tedious things like:
> > - lookup to which package a file belongs
> > - remove older versions of packages
> > and the like ?
> 
> This is something I've been working on for Gentool. There is however some
> resitance about adding this to the pkg-system, for some reason (Hi Lamer
> ;p).

Lamer isn't in charge of Portage; I am.  So just because Lamer rants, grumbles
and screams "bloody okra" doesn't mean there is resistance to add these
features.  I want these features included, and I'm working on having others
help me out with Portage so that Portage can be developed more aggressively.
Once we start parallelizing our development properly, things will get done much
faster.  But it will take some time and effort (and volunteerism) for this to
happen.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.