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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:59:47
Message-Id: 491B5FB7.3080604@netspace.net.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 >> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote:
5 >>> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in
6 >>> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable?
7 >> I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null
8 >> output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give
9 >> false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend.
10 >
11 > Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives?
12
13 dep from app-portage/udept just got recommended to me, but I don't know
14 it's trustworthiness either.
15
16 --
17 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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19 Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
20 -- Benjamin Disraeli

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