Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg and etcat deprecated?

[Pingveno]

Agreement. equery size somepackage is much, much slower than: pkg-size somepackage I don't know if equery can be significantly sped up in the future, but the speed difference is a significant problem for me. With 550 MHz, pkg-size (a relatively simple shell script) was almost instantaneous, while equery size (a python program that directly uses the portage API) took several seconds. BTW, this was after one run of pkg-size to get all of the files cached in RAM, just for fairness. I love Python dearly, but it's annoyingly slow for some things. This is one of them. -Pingveno Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 09 May 2005 18:50:45 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: * The qpkg and etcat tools are deprecated in favor of equery and * are no longer installed in /usr/bin in this release. * They are still available in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2/deprecated/ * if you *really* want to use them. Considering that qpkg is several orders of magnitude faster than equery, yes, I *really* do want to use them. -- Linux User #340304