[gentoo-user] qpkg and etcat deprecated?

2005-05-09 Thread Willie Wong
There has long been talk of deprecating etcat and qpkg in favor of equery, has that been finalized? I updated to portage-2.0.51.21-r1 yesterday and can no longer find the etcat and qpkg commands. And what is it with the changelogs? Maybe I've looked in the wrong place, but I didn't see that

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

2005-05-09 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 09 May 2005 16:33, Willie Wong wrote: There has long been talk of deprecating etcat and qpkg in favor of equery, has that been finalized? I updated to portage-2.0.51.21-r1 yesterday and can no longer find the etcat and qpkg commands. And what is it with the changelogs? Maybe I've

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

2005-05-09 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:33, Willie Wong wrote: There has long been talk of deprecating etcat and qpkg in favor of equery, has that been finalized? I updated to portage-2.0.51.21-r1 yesterday and can no longer find the etcat and qpkg commands. And what is it with the changelogs? Maybe I've

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

2005-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

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

2005-05-09 Thread 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,