From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SVmns-0003UK-CW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 16:46:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7013CE077C; Sat, 19 May 2012 16:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9510DE077C for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 16:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so3645650wgb.10 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 09:44:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GcfOrI0s9BrpQieAJykvnZ+3T+qw3o+vY6+jxW2gIDE=; b=JbcNRHhGCLHBeDjYfoolrsA4DZIUectSvE0E3cXUHcZmgp+u2iQC/3f2NiPGtPxi9x 5pzv+uRUnrD8jdmWQnVnVoTDCpk4L7HA/m12m1IfHczFr8kGsBMCObxP+akgyOsoVB6l L/+2MTS7pEHl0yQdsguk8ETooI6UATagc8bNiR2RB6/PDPsXIT8jm4/aj9HVQzNQQg1U kBo0Dvzc/IjTLWOZhVGg7L9lJ3+PamGO4nhROuNSRPDQXyXY36GLP6EYggUF67g3AS28 dsKwD0uEO0PXN1+iTp9SoDLdHPsN04livnBgrXIwMuqEe/FCBXadxXxC2ukres+CCLDl C1FQ== Received: by 10.216.198.1 with SMTP id u1mr9198505wen.92.1337445860830; Sat, 19 May 2012 09:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-114-166.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.114.166]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o9sm16532700wia.3.2012.05.19.09.44.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 May 2012 09:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 18:41:16 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...? Message-ID: <20120519184116.6411bd39@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4FB7B818.5050107@hanft.de> References: <20120517031712.GA3045@solfire> <7441657.ZW9ZMTNEZg@localhost> <4FB7B818.5050107@hanft.de> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 00d028cc-7af6-4794-af4e-eb4e5452c774 X-Archives-Hash: dc126ff151c96dc91565ee805bda463d On Sat, 19 May 2012 17:11:20 +0200 Matthias Hanft wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and > > all? > > At least, "equery uses " *does* work with uninstalled > packages. (However, "equery files " 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