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 1L0TTy-0004Of-9v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:07:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55628E037B; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A823E037B for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4243064574 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.461 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.461 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.138, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TD13DBMVdgJd for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41ABF644E1 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L0TTh-0003vk-C5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:45 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:45 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:06:32 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zlk4l16f.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87prl0n21n.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811122312.32111.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87abc4mupp.fsf@newsguy.com> <491B5D4E.40608@googlemail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:opwQQ47OqZ3ZDZ+AA1Y0Ag45sMs= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: fba70525-17a8-4fbd-9354-fbf0613a0e1e X-Archives-Hash: d32a38fc9504cb260e3aeb844e82ffe1 Daniel Pielmeier writes: >>>> 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? >> >> >> > > emerge -pv --depclean atom I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to some specific package. Maybe a little more detail would keep my little pea brain from smoking under the load ;)