Arttu V. wrote: > On 6/10/09, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the >> same thing? And a different tool for each one. >> > > No, the suggested commands aren't all even doing the same thing. > Especially emerge -e world is an outlier. On a box with a "lazy" or a > "first time install, learning Gentoo" admin it's likely to give a very > different result from most of the others. > > As the OP hasn't given a reason or motivation why he needs the package > list, what it is for, we can only make assumptions and throw out wild > guesses. > > After all, he might even be after emerge -pv --depclean, as it, too, > sort of prints out pretty much all packages on the system. Not to > mention a few thousand lines of dependency information. :) > >
They may not be doing the same thing but they are a answer to the same question. Dale :-) :-)
