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 looked in the wrong >place, but I didn't see that change mentioned at all in the changelog >for portage (actually, I didn't even see a changelog when I issued >`emerge -vlPu portage'). > >W > > Hi, The two mentioned utils are in 'gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2' not portage. Here's the message after gentoolkit -0.2.1_pre2 emerge: ... * The following older scripts have been removed in this release: * dep-clean, ewhich, mkebuild, pkg-clean, pkg-size
* 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 them. ... HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
