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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:49:08
Message-Id: 200908312056.27391.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir? by Mick
1 On Monday 31 August 2009 20:04:06 Mick wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > Not sure if I should trust qdepends or equery:
5 >
6 > # qdepends dev-libs/libmimedir
7 > dev-libs/libmimedir-0.4: sys-devel/flex sys-devel/bison
8 > =sys-devel/automake-1.10* >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.61 sys-devel/libtool
9 >
10 > # equery depends dev-libs/libmimedir
11 > [ Searching for packages depending on dev-libs/libmimedir... ]
12 >
13 > What would you advise?
14
15 Both, as the commands you ran do entirely different things.
16
17 qdepends shows what a package depends on.
18 equery depends shows what depends on a package.
19
20 --
21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir? Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>