On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:29 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Can you tell us what qpkg and etcat are deprecated, Paul? Is it because
> of a lack of a maintainer or is there something fundamentally wrong with
> them?
In the case of qpkg, there are several un-fixable bugs.
In the case of etcat, its co
On Friday 20 January 2006 14:29, Paul Varner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote:
> > > I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to
> > > do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpk
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:29:12 -0600, Paul Varner wrote:
> As the current maintainer of gentoolkit, please do what Neil said and
> place it in /usr/local/bin and not /usr/bin
Can you tell us what qpkg and etcat are deprecated, Paul? Is it because
of a lack of a maintainer or is there something fund
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote:
>
> > I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to
> > do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and
> > make a backup copy somewh
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote:
> I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to
> do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and
> make a backup copy somewhere for when it's no longer available (in
> gentoolkit, or a new g
On Friday 20 January 2006 04:31, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
> 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 deprecate
Dale wrote:
Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
This is an easy one :)
equery l -p -o -i ppp
Thanks. It wasn't quite what etcat does but it is a start. I got the
info I needed anyway. Now to go put my nose in the manual for a bit.
Dale
:-)
I know its not from the command line but porthole is
On Friday 20 January 2006 04:30, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:25:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > I wonder the same thing about etcat. It's gone
>
> It's not gone, it's moved - to the same place as qpkg.
Now we're cooking.
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:25:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
> I wonder the same thing about etcat. It's gone
It's not gone, it's moved - to the same place as qpkg.
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Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
> This is an easy one :)
> equery l -p -o -i ppp
>
Thanks. It wasn't quite what etcat does but it is a start. I got the
info I needed anyway. Now to go put my nose in the manual for a bit.
Dale
:-)
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:23:57 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
> > That is because the packages don't depend on xorg-x11, they depend on
> > anything the provides the functionality of X. An equery depends
> > virtual/x11 will show all of the packages that are dependent upon X.
> >
> > I have no
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:10:20 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
> 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 t
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 de
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, ye
Paul Varner wrote:
However, there are two problems with equery:
1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends displays all
packages that may depend on a package, not the ones that really do on my
system.
I remember seeing something in bugzilla about this issue, but is was
marked as
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:08:55 +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> Try installing portage-utils, which has a new version of qpkg.
It is not a new version, it is a different program with the same name.
> qpkg seems to have disappeared from gentoolkit/bin since the latest
> release of portage too, so unfortu
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 thi
>>>But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was
>>replaced by equery.
>>qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not installed into
>>your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current
>>location of /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg
>
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:32:04 -, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> > qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not
> > installed into
> > your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current
> > location of /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg
>
> Or you could
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:25 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
> But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by
> equery.
See other messages for how to get qpkg back.
> However, there are two problems with equery:
> 1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends displays
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:32 +, Michael Kintzios wrote:
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 19 January 2006 12:42
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmer
> -Original Message-
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 19 January 2006 12:42
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:25:00 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wro
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:25:00 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
> But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by
> equery.
qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not installed into
your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current
locat
Hi,
I have some trouble is safely removing a package.
I remember doing a "qpkg -q -I " to find out whether the
package is still used, and the remove it.
But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by
equery.
However, there are two problems with equery:
1. it disrega
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