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From: Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:36:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D2E642.1070100@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507112325.06903.rudmer@legolas.dynup.net>

Rudmer van Dijk schreef:
> 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??
> 
> 	Rudmer

Possibly because you can do the same with eix (emerge eix):

 eix gnome-games
* gnome-extra/gnome-games
     Available versions:  1.4.0.3-r3 2.4.2 2.6.2 2.8.1 2.8.1-r1 2.8.2
2.8.3 2.10.0 ~2.10.1
     Installed:           2.10.1
     Homepage:            http://www.gnome.org/
     Description:         Collection of games for the GNOME desktop

* gnome-extra/gnome-games-extra-data
     Available versions:  2.8.0 2.10.0
     Installed:           2.10.0
     Homepage:            http://www.gnome.org/
     Description:         Optional additional graphics for gnome- games


If that's of any help to you :-) .

Holly
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-11 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-11 21:25 [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat Rudmer van Dijk
2005-07-11 21:36 ` Holly Bostick [this message]
2005-07-11 21:47 ` Renat Golubchyk
2005-07-12 17:21   ` Rudmer van Dijk
2005-07-12 17:26     ` Holly Bostick
2005-07-12 17:50       ` Tom Wesley
2005-07-13 16:50         ` Rudmer van Dijk
2005-07-12 18:40       ` [gentoo-user] " James
2005-07-12 19:00         ` Holly Bostick
2005-07-11 21:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Andreas Claesson

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