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From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens@sistina.com>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Checking availability of a package from an ebuild
Date: Wed Jul 18 08:03:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010718090304.A3607@minime.sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01071810304200.00605@localhost>; from danarmak@gentoo.org on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:30:42AM +0300

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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:30:42AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>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).

emerge --pretend

>
>
>-- 
>
>Dan Armak
>Gentoo Linux Developer
>Matan, Israel
>
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-- 
Ben Lutgens		
Sistina Software Inc.	
Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-18 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-18  1:51 [gentoo-dev] Checking availability of a package from an ebuild Dan Armak
2001-07-18  8:03 ` Ben Lutgens [this message]
2001-07-18  8:37   ` Dan Armak
2001-07-18 10:58 ` Daniel Robbins

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