From: Sean Mitchell <SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Checking availability of a package from an ebuil d
Date: Wed Jul 18 07:00:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DCB85BD45DED211B12D009027279E4F4767C7@murcury> (raw)
Hi Dan...
> This may be trivial, but I can't find out how to do it. How
> can I check from
> within an ebuild whether or not a package is installed? For
> example whether
> virtual/x11 is available. (Even if it's not in USE).
I've been using ls /var/db/pkg...
Sean
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2001-07-18 7:00 Sean Mitchell [this message]
2001-07-18 8:34 ` [gentoo-dev] Checking availability of a package from an ebuil d Dan Armak
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2001-07-18 8:50 Sean Mitchell
2001-07-18 10:48 ` Dan Armak
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