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From: Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:52:57
Message-Id: 20050711234717.4aaa9dfa@mating-tux.renatik.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat by Rudmer van Dijk
1 On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:25:06 +0200 Rudmer van Dijk
2 <rudmer@×××××××××××××.net> wrote:
3 > etcat is deprecated in favor of equery but equery does not have a
4 > functionality like `etcat -v <package>` (listing all available
5 > versions of a package). I used it quite often and have been
6 > struggling with equery ever since etcat is deprecated... Are there
7 > plans to build this functionality into equery? if not, why??
8
9 It is already in there, people just tend to overlook it ;-) Run
10 "equery list -p package", for more information run "equery list --help"
11 or generally "equery <command> --help". If you run "equery --help" you
12 will notice that equery has global options and local options which do
13 some nice stuff.
14
15 Cheers,
16 Renat

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Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer@×××××××××××××.net>