[gentoo-user] The uselessness of equery

[Ian Zimmerman]

~$ time equery -Cq b /usr/bin/equery
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.0

real	0m27.594s
user	0m8.780s
sys	0m0.456s

Has anyone a better way?  As Alan recently wrote in a different but
related context, surely a hack in bash / awk /perl would do better, and
that's what I'll do if I must, but I can't believe gentoo lacks a usable
tool for questions like this.

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