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From: "Jesús J. Guerrero Botella" <jesus.guerrero.botella@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:58:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMix8LG0s1pOaFHt9ZR54RnAn-AB5t8xya5J-vp5Gndb2MMbpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17381100.uIeYazCFLG@localhost>

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There's no way to know the files for a non-installed package. Ebuilds are
NOT packages. The files are generated at build time, and vary dependind on
the package, version, config options, arch, deps, and a large etc,
including missalignment of the planets and othes essoteric variables.

---
Jesús Guerrero Botella
El 19/05/2012 18:48, "Volker Armin Hemmann" <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
escribió:

> Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2012, 17:11:20 schrieb Matthias Hanft:
> > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and all?
> >
> > At least, "equery uses <package>" *does* work with uninstalled packages.
>
> because you just need to look at the useflags and ?DEPEND to figure that
> out.
>
> > (However, "equery files <package>" does not.)
>
> obviously.
>
> --
> #163933
>
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-20 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-17  3:19 [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...? meino.cramer
2012-05-17  3:58 ` Dale
2012-05-17  4:28 ` Stroller
2012-05-19  3:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-19 15:11   ` Matthias Hanft
2012-05-19 16:41     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-19 16:45     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-20  9:58       ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella [this message]

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