From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 18:41:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120519184116.6411bd39@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB7B818.5050107@hanft.de>
On Sat, 19 May 2012 17:11:20 +0200
Matthias Hanft <mh@hanft.de> wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >
> > not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and
> > all?
>
> At least, "equery uses <package>" *does* work with uninstalled
> packages. (However, "equery files <package>" does not.)
You've answered a different question to that asked.
"equery uses" lists the USE flags of an ebuild and that info is in the
ebuild".
"equery files" lists the file installed after the ebuild is merged. that
info is not in the ebuild.
These two things are very different.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-19 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 3:19 [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...? meino.cramer
2012-05-17 3:58 ` Dale
2012-05-17 4:28 ` Stroller
2012-05-19 3:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-19 15:11 ` Matthias Hanft
2012-05-19 16:41 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-05-19 16:45 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-20 9:58 ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
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