[gentoo-dev] Announcement: PFL is looking for a new maintainer

[gentoo-dev] Announcement: PFL is looking for a new maintainer

[Daniel Pielmeier]

Hello All!

I am posting this here (gentoo-dev, gentoo-user) at the request of the 
upstream maintainer to reach a larger audience. PFL upstream will stop 
working on the project and is looking for a new maintainer.

For those who don't know what PFL is. It is basically a database that 
allows users to search for packages that provide a file. Say you want to 
run a command/program, but you don't know which package provides it. 
This is where PFL can help.
The database itself is populated by users. When you install 
app-app-portage/pfl [1], there's a script that sends a list of installed 
packages and their contents to the server. A second script is used to 
query for packages that owe a file. There is also a web interface [2] 
which provides similar functionality.

I believe a similar feature is also available for Ubuntu (maybe other 
distributions too, not sure if this is Ubuntu specific). If you type a 
command on the command line that is not available, you get suggestions 
for packages that contain the program.

I now see two possibilities. Either another user takes over the project 
or Gentoo itself takes over the maintenance. But someone has to do the 
work and further maintenance. Otherwise the project will be terminated.

If you are interested or have something to share, please join the 
discussion in the forum [3] to keep everything in one central place.

Thanks!

[1] https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-portage/pfl
[2] https://portagefilelist.de/
[3] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1163382.html

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Best Regards
Daniel