> > > > > > > Thanks, I've installed this and it seems to work. > > > > > >> learn to search portage. either "eix" or "emerge -s" > > > > > > That I'll have to do. I'm not fully comfortable with emerge yet. > > > > > >> Jeremy > > > > Sounds like you are new. Interesting commands: The "q" family. Just > > do a "man q" and check it out since there is a few of them. There is > > also eix, genlop which sort of has some common tools as the "q" family. > > You also need use eselect from time to time as well. There are also > > times when revdep-rebuild will rear its head too. > > To search for specific packages, I think Dale and Mark did a good set. > As for the others, like "revdep-rebuild", there is also "python-updater" > and > "etc-update".
Huh, I've been using gentoo for years and never knew about the "q's", definitely learned something new today! But I just wanted to make a note that a few of these programs are part of the gentoolkit package. Querying portage for revdep, equery, etc won't give you the package it belongs to.
