On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder >> when to prefer which one. >> >> On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. >> On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of >> symlinks to /usr/bin/q >> like >> qfile >> qdepends >> quse >> and so on. >> >> Often they offer similar tasks. >> I wonder when to use which one. >> Which is faster, more reliable, ... >> >> Many thanks for sharing your experience, >> Helmut. >> > I would personally prefer equery, as it is in gentoolkit, an official > gentoo project, and because is more standard. To tell the truth, though, > I have never even heard of q-tools... >
No wonder, it's just my personal nickname for it. The official name is app-portage/portage-util Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
