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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:10
Message-Id: tkrat.1aa30149d57e9ebc@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools by Marcus Wanner
1 On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote:
2 > On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
6 >> when to prefer which one.
7 >>
8 >> On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
9 >> On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of
10 >> symlinks to /usr/bin/q
11 >> like
12 >> qfile
13 >> qdepends
14 >> quse
15 >> and so on.
16 >>
17 >> Often they offer similar tasks.
18 >> I wonder when to use which one.
19 >> Which is faster, more reliable, ...
20 >>
21 >> Many thanks for sharing your experience,
22 >> Helmut.
23 >>
24 > I would personally prefer equery, as it is in gentoolkit, an official
25 > gentoo project, and because is more standard. To tell the truth, though,
26 > I have never even heard of q-tools...
27 >
28
29 No wonder, it's just my personal nickname for it.
30 The official name is
31 app-portage/portage-util
32
33 Helmut.
34
35 --
36 Helmut Jarausch
37
38 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
39 RWTH - Aachen University
40 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] equery versus q-tools Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>