Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:40:05 +0100 Russ Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>Ash Varma wrote: >> >>>So try: >>> >>>$ equery uses <package_name> >>> >>>eg. >>> >> >>I keep saying this but nobody seems to listen. 'equery uses' only >>works for packages that you already have installed, which makes it far >>less useful than 'etcat uses' was, which worked with packages you >>haven't installed yet. > > > You are wrong here. Example: > > $ equery uses > Display USE flags for a given package > > Syntax: > uses <local-opts> pkgspec > <local-opts> is either of: > -a, --all - include non-installed packages >
Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. Thanks for that. On a related issue, etcat has the very useful 'versions' command which lists all versions of the package in portage along with their masked/installed status. I can't find an equivalent in equery, but I'm now starting to wonder if it is there but undocumented. Any ideas? If I can find something to do that I can stop using etcat completely. :-) Thanks. -- Russ. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
