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
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