On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:48:29PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I don't doubt all can be done in other ways, but that one tool > combines a lot of functionality... though I'll admit I mostly use it > for checking dependencies and reverse dependencies (q doesn't do > reverse I don't think) and just querying packages like you do with > equery and q. >
q works... to a certain extent. [04:01 PM]wwong ~ $ qdepends -Q pstoedit media-gfx/autotrace-0.31.1-r3 [04:01 PM]wwong ~ $ equery depends pstoedit [ Searching for packages depending on pstoedit... ] media-gfx/autotrace-0.31.1-r3 (pdf? media-gfx/pstoedit) media-gfx/inkscape-0.46-r5 (postscript? >=media-gfx/pstoedit-3.44) So it's not perfect. equery works better, but slowly. I agree with you about the tools: it is hard to change one's habit and use new tools. I keep telling myself to learn eix but just never got around to doing it. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
