88459 – arguments in qpkg from gentoolkit not like debian's dpkg

Bug 88459 - arguments in qpkg from gentoolkit not like debian's dpkg

Summary: arguments in qpkg from gentoolkit not like debian's dpkg

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2005-04-09 04:57 UTC by Henning Schild
Modified:	2005-04-09 08:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Henning Schild 2005-04-09 04:57:39 UTC

As i am also using debian its really confusing that the arguments are different for the same actions.

dpkg -S == qpkg -f
dpkg -L == qpkg -l
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It would be nice to have a wrapper tool (gpkg) that translates the debian style into gentoo style and uses qpkg. Or to have a configfile where you set the style to debian.
As debian was first gentoo should make this step. I guess many people using both distris have this problem. dpkg und qpkg are somewhere in my most read manpages top 5 only because of this.

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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-09 08:36:24 UTC

qpkg is replaced by equery.