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On Sunday 09 November 2008 12:41:04 Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > Just be aware that equery depends is somewhat broken |
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> > It lists dependencies in the tree, not dependencies a specific machine is |
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> > using. Plus it doesn't find some valid deps either. |
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> > It's still useful, but the user also has to use eix to determine which |
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> > deps are valid for them and which are not. |
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> well , what about dep? |
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> from dep manpage |
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> -l, --depends (default) List dependencies of PACKAGE |
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> -L, --rev-depends List reverse dependencies of PACKAGE |
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> show try dep -l amarok and you will get amarok dependencies . |
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> Or try dep -L amarok and you will get the packages that depend on amarok |
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> Sorry If I understand your question wrong |
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Interesting command. I didn't even know of it till I read your post, so I |
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can't comment on whether it works well or not. |
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equery on the other hand, is known to give accurate answers to a question the |
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user normally did not ask. i.e. it doesn't really do what users wish it did. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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