Sometimes I use emerge -1 $(equery -q -C d alsa-lib) which outputs: !!! 'app-accessibility/flite-1.4-r2' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. I better use: emerge -1 $(equery -q -C d alsa-lib|sed -e's/^/=/') Every ca third month I want to use this command, I do read the man equery to find any output option of "equery depends" with no luck at all :(
It prints the atoms fine, just not the version operators. Do (something like) this instead: emerge -1 $(equery -q -C d alsa-lib | awk '{print "=" $1;}' )
Some equery commands have the custom format option. Unfortunately for you equery depends does not yet. Look for the -F, --format= option. However it is planned to extend the custom format option to all equery modules for the next release.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 224515 ***