From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0Ogd-00033U-9G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:59:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED097E044E; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out2.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2BAFE044E for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0ACC6ACB1 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:59:34 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <491B5FB7.3080604@netspace.net.au> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:29:03 +0930 From: Iain Buchanan User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable References: <87prl0n21n.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811122312.32111.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87abc4mupp.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87abc4mupp.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8577fe78-bafe-4b02-8865-c5cbf771a4d0 X-Archives-Hash: ec28e544a879da26c0ac580adb2ded01 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon 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 Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli