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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Is equery depends still viable
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:12:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811122312.32111.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prl0n21n.fsf@newsguy.com>

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote:
> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in
> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable?

I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null output. So I no 
longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give false positives - what's in 
the putput really is a valid depend.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 20:04 [gentoo-user] Is equery depends still viable Harry Putnam
2008-11-12 21:12 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-11-12 22:43   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2008-11-12 22:48     ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-11-13  4:06       ` Harry Putnam
2008-11-13  4:53         ` Iain Buchanan
2008-11-13  5:47         ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-13  6:52         ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-11-12 22:59     ` Iain Buchanan
2008-11-13  4:16       ` Harry Putnam
2008-11-13  7:54     ` Neil Bothwick

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