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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Is equery depends still viable
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:29:03 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491B5FB7.3080604@netspace.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abc4mupp.fsf@newsguy.com>

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives?

dep from app-portage/udept just got recommended to me, but I don't know 
it's trustworthiness either.

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
		-- Benjamin Disraeli



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 22:59 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
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 [this message]
2008-11-13  4:16       ` Harry Putnam
2008-11-13  7:54     ` Neil Bothwick

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