Translations:Q applets/10/en

is a collection of very fast utilities written in C, which are meant to offer a faster but more limited alternative to their  counterparts. Please note that  is not meant to replace. Its utilities are much more efficient than the equivalent ones from  and might be better suited to be used in scripts that need to call Portage repeatedly, but   does not offer the same functionalities. It does not consider eclasses at all and does not provide tools like  and.