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
next prev 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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