Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat

[Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer@legolas.dynup.net>]

On Monday 11 July 2005 23:47, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:25:06 +0200 Rudmer van Dijk
>
> <rudmer@legolas.dynup.net> wrote:
> > etcat is deprecated in favor of equery but equery does not have a
> > functionality like `etcat -v <package>` (listing all available
> > versions of a  package). I used it quite often and have been
> > struggling with equery ever  since etcat is deprecated... Are there
> > plans to build this functionality into  equery? if not, why??
>
> It is already in there, people just tend to overlook it ;-) Run
> "equery list -p package", for more information run "equery list --help"
> or generally "equery <command> --help". If you run "equery --help" you
> will notice that equery has global options and local options which do
> some nice stuff.

thanks! I should have RTFM better than I did...

Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the 
availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion!

	Rudmer
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