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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:34:26
Message-Id: 43694BAE.9020907@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!? by Walter Dnes
1 Walter Dnes wrote:
2
3 >
4 >
5 > The tetex tarball is 85 megs alone. I've managed to emerge and update
6 >everything else after last night's sync, so these aren't dependencies of
7 >those packages. With qpkg, I could find out what depends on this stuff.
8 >Help!.
9 >
10 >
11 >
12 Try equery. It works pretty good, once I figured out how to use it, a
13 little. I'm new to this stuff too, sort of.
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15 equery depends <package name>
16
17 Example, I like them too.
18
19 > root@smoker / # equery depends tetex
20 > [ Searching for packages depending on tetex... ]
21 > app-doc/doxygen-1.4.4
22 > app-text/noweb-2.9-r3
23 > dev-tex/chktex-1.6.2
24 > dev-tex/latex2html-2002.2.1_pre20041025
25 > kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4.1-r1
26 > net-dialup/mgetty-1.1.30-r2
27 > root@smoker / #
28
29 Now you know what needs tetex anyway.
30
31 Hope that helps.
32
33 Dale
34 :-)
35
36 --
37 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!? David Morgan <david.morgan@××××××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!? Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>