[gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of symlinks to /usr/bin/q like qfile qdepends quse and so on. Often they offer similar tasks. I wonder when to use which one. Which is faster, more reliable, ... Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of symlinks to /usr/bin/q like qfile qdepends quse and so on. Often they offer similar tasks. I wonder when to use which one. Which is faster, more reliable, ... Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. I would personally prefer equery, as it is in gentoolkit, an official gentoo project, and because is more standard. To tell the truth, though, I have never even heard of q-tools... Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of symlinks to /usr/bin/q like qfile qdepends quse and so on. Often they offer similar tasks. I wonder when to use which one. Which is faster, more reliable, ... Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. I would personally prefer equery, as it is in gentoolkit, an official gentoo project, and because is more standard. To tell the truth, though, I have never even heard of q-tools... No wonder, it's just my personal nickname for it. The official name is app-portage/portage-util Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
On 11/20/2009 11:56 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of symlinks to /usr/bin/q like qfile qdepends quse and so on. Often they offer similar tasks. I wonder when to use which one. Which is faster, more reliable, ... Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. I would personally prefer equery, as it is in gentoolkit, an official gentoo project, and because is more standard. To tell the truth, though, I have never even heard of q-tools... No wonder, it's just my personal nickname for it. The official name is app-portage/portage-util Helmut. Ah. Then I can't really give you any recommendation besides the fact that gentoolkit seems to be what most people use, and there is certainly something to be said for using the most popular programs since there will be faster support and bugfixes. Or course, that is a valid decision criteria only when there is no other reason to choose a specific option (there would be no such thing as the linux or even gentoo user base otherwise). Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
Marcus Wanner wrote: On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder when to prefer which one. On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of symlinks to /usr/bin/q like qfile qdepends quse and so on. Often they offer similar tasks. I wonder when to use which one. Which is faster, more reliable, ... Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. I would personally prefer equery, as it is in gentoolkit, an official gentoo project, and because is more standard. To tell the truth, though, I have never even heard of q-tools... Marcus But as I have seen and read about, equery is not always correct. It is handy but you need to take its results with a little salt. That said, I use it a lot. just have to use the old noodle still. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:03 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: Ah. Then I can't really give you any recommendation besides the fact that gentoolkit seems to be what most people use, and there is certainly something to be said for using the most popular programs since there will be faster support and bugfixes. Like Windows? equery is known to give incorrect results, and has done for years. -- Neil Bothwick I don't know if I can assimilate one more Borg Tagline! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
On 11/20/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:03 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: Ah. Then I can't really give you any recommendation besides the fact that gentoolkit seems to be what most people use, and there is certainly something to be said for using the most popular programs since there will be faster support and bugfixes. Like Windows? I did say (right after the snip) that: Or course, that is a valid decision criteria only when there is no other reason to choose a specific option (there would be no such thing as the linux or even gentoo user base otherwise). What I meant by that was, quite frankly, that Windows sucks. Marcus
