On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 22:04:53 +0000, Victor Ivanov wrote: > > My understanding was that "equery d" gives you a list from portage, > > not caring about what is currently installed, where "emerge -pvc" > > will tell you what is preventing the removal of the package. > > Not so based on my understanding (i.e. the man page). As far as I can > tell 'equery d' ought to only look at the installed packages unless the > '--all-packages' flag is passed. Not unlike other operations (e.g. > 'equery list') which also look by default only at installed packages.
But does it take into account the USE flags with which those packages were installed? That used to not be the case, but I haven't used equery for a long time, for just that reason. -- Neil Bothwick Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers.
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