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From: Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer@×××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:25:40
Message-Id: 200507121921.05169.rudmer@legolas.dynup.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat by Renat Golubchyk
1 On Monday 11 July 2005 23:47, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
2 > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:25:06 +0200 Rudmer van Dijk
3 >
4 > <rudmer@×××××××××××××.net> wrote:
5 > > etcat is deprecated in favor of equery but equery does not have a
6 > > functionality like `etcat -v <package>` (listing all available
7 > > versions of a package). I used it quite often and have been
8 > > struggling with equery ever since etcat is deprecated... Are there
9 > > plans to build this functionality into equery? if not, why??
10 >
11 > It is already in there, people just tend to overlook it ;-) Run
12 > "equery list -p package", for more information run "equery list --help"
13 > or generally "equery <command> --help". If you run "equery --help" you
14 > will notice that equery has global options and local options which do
15 > some nice stuff.
16
17 thanks! I should have RTFM better than I did...
18
19 Holly: eix is probably not it, since it looks like it does not show the
20 availability of the package (masked+keyword), but thanks for the suggestion!
21
22 Rudmer
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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>