Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:43:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? qdepends -Q pkgname qdepends is part of portage-utils. -- Neil Bothwick Windows: just another pane in the glass signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/13 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> emerge -pv --depclean atom > > I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show > massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to > some specific package. > > Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in > general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Harry Putnam wrote: Daniel Pielmeier<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: emerge -pv --depclean atom I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to some specific package. Maybe a little more detail would keep my l

[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? > > dep from app-portage/udept just got recommended to me, but I don't > know it's trustworthiness either. Looks promising .. thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? >>> I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null >>> output. So I no longer trust it fully. At leas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Harry Putnam schrieb am 12.11.2008 23:43: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in >>> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? >> I use it fa

[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: >> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in >> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? > > I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of n