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Hi, does anyone use --category filtering in equery belongs? I want to |
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get rid of it, or at least deprecate it. My reasoning: |
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* We use 'equery belongs' when don't know to what package a file |
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belongs. Even if we have a suspicion, most users would have to look up |
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the category of the package before typing it in. |
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* Even if you happen to know the exact category of the package that |
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installed the file (why are you using belongs?), typing |
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--category=app-portage takes more time than is saved by filtering by |
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category (about 5 seconds more by my unscientific test). |
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Even in a script setting, I see no use for this. The time saved is minuscule: |
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$ time equery belongs /usr/bin/equery --category app-portage |
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[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/equery in app-portage... ] |
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app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1 (/usr/bin/equery) |
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real 0m4.002s |
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user 0m3.680s |
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sys 0m0.076s |
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$ time equery belongs /usr/bin/equery |
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[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/equery in *... ] |
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app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1 (/usr/bin/equery) |
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real 0m4.205s |
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user 0m3.738s |
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sys 0m0.102s |
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* Lastly, it's confusing. belongs takes a filename as input, but you |
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can filter by category? All other modules that take can filter by |
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category take a pkgspec. |
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-Doug |
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