[gentoo-user] Re: Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name> database

[gentoo-user] Re: Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name> database

[Thomas Mueller]

Thanks to those who responded for the suggestions. 

I didn't think I sent this same message a second time.  If I did, it was accidental.

Using equery and other portage commands may be better than looking directly at /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name>, sort of like the new pkgng in FreeBSD which is taking over from the older format.


I come from a Linux distribution (Slackware) whose package management knows nothing about dependencies.

Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name> database

[Bruce Hill]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:12:05AM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Thanks to those who responded for the suggestions. 
> 
> I didn't think I sent this same message a second time.  If I did, it was accidental.
> 
> Using equery and other portage commands may be better than looking directly at /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package-name>, sort of like the new pkgng in FreeBSD which is taking over from the older format.
> 
> 
> I come from a Linux distribution (Slackware) whose package management knows nothing about dependencies.

In reality Slackware does know about dependencies, it's just handled
differently that Gentoo's portage. In essence, the writer of the SlackBuild
sript is supposed to handle dependencies in that script.

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