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From: Paul Varner <gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:31:21
Message-Id: 1073500277.21988.44.camel@garath.local.domain
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre1 almost available for testing by Karl Trygve Kalleberg
1 On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:19, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
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3 > We've done some internal revamping of the Gentoolkit package. On the
4 > surface, little has changed for now. A new tool called 'equery' is
5 > available, that's going to replace etcat and qpkg, so please give it a
6 > whirl, and come with feature suggestions and bug reports.
7 >
8 > The reason we're dumping etcat and qpkg is that neither uses portage for
9 > queries, and we don't want to maintain more than one query tool. Most of
10 > the features from qpkg and etcat have been included in equery, so
11 > heaploads of thanks to the qpkg and etcat authors.
12 >
13 > gentoolkit-0.2.0 will be released alongside portage 2.0.50, so please
14 > spend some available time to test it before we unleash it on the
15 > unwashed;)
16 >
17 > We usual, bugs go tools-portage@g.o or me personally.
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19 Since I'm real interested in the Gentoolkit package, I'm willing to test
20 and play with this. The question I have before I do so is what if
21 anything can I expect to break by unmasking and installing
22 portage-2.50_pre10?
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