Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

[Catalin Grigoroscuta]

Dale wrote: Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the functionality of a deprecated tool with the current tools. Everybody explained to me how to obtain the deprecated tool, yet nobody answered to "how to do this with the new tools". So, what is the reason for qpkg is deprecated, after all? Regards, Catalin I wonder the same thing about etcat. It's gone and I have no clue how to find out what versions of ppp are available. The new equery makes no sense to me. I have used it a couple times but I can not figure out how to get it to tell me what all versions are in portage for ppp. I would like to try ether a masked version or a older version, if I knew what they were. This is an easy one :) equery l -p -o -i ppp I wonder how long equery will last? I figure about the time I learn to use it a bit, it will be gone too. This has been a bad week. Dale :-)