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Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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> On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder |
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>> when to prefer which one. |
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>> On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands. |
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>> On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of |
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>> symlinks to /usr/bin/q |
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>> like |
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>> qfile |
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>> qdepends |
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>> quse |
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>> and so on. |
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>> Often they offer similar tasks. |
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>> I wonder when to use which one. |
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>> Which is faster, more reliable, ... |
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>> Many thanks for sharing your experience, |
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>> Helmut. |
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> I would personally prefer equery, as it is in gentoolkit, an official |
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> gentoo project, and because is more standard. To tell the truth, |
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> though, I have never even heard of q-tools... |
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> Marcus |
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But as I have seen and read about, equery is not always correct. It is |
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handy but you need to take its results with a little salt. |
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That said, I use it a lot. just have to use the old noodle still. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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