Re: [gentoo-user] etcat & equery

2005-03-25 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Bill Davidson wrote: > > I know this isn't exactly what you want, but in the meantime use > "grep use-flag /usr/portage/profile/use.*". At least it's a better solution > than installing a package twice. HTH. > > Bill Give a shot to euse! HTH. Cheers, Tamas Sarga

Re: [gentoo-user] etcat & equery

2005-03-25 Thread Bill Davidson
On 08:05 Thu 24 Mar , Russ Brown wrote: > From what I can gather etcat is being phased out in favour of equery. > All fine and dandy, except that etcat has functionality that equery does > not that I find useful: [snip description of features] Why don't you open a bug requesting this functi

Re: [gentoo-user] etcat & equery

2005-03-24 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-03-24 08:05:06 + (Thu, Mar), Russ Brown wrote: > These are both really useful features. The really annoying thing is that > etcat uses doesn't actually work at the moment (traceback below), which > means I have to install the package to find out what use flags I > actually want, and

[gentoo-user] etcat & equery

2005-03-24 Thread Russ Brown
From what I can gather etcat is being phased out in favour of equery. All fine and dandy, except that etcat has functionality that equery does not that I find useful: First up is 'etcat versions'. Given a package name this lists all versions of the package that are in portage, along with maskin