Unless things have changed, equery is not a full replacement for qpkg and etcat: you can get different results for packages that are installed at times - all three can and do show different results at times. None are always correct! Its actually quite a useful fault finding tool. On the balance, I use qpkg a lot (its nicer to use) and only look at the other two when the results dont seem correct - sometimes they add information, sometimes not.
BillK On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:50 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > 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'). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
