From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32343 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2004 00:54:32 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Jul 2004 00:54:32 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BjSbv-0003BS-Eh for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:54:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 27069 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jul 2004 00:54:30 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11535 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2004 00:54:30 +0000 Message-ID: <32822.68.78.46.139.1089507254.squirrel@68.78.46.139> In-Reply-To: <200407102037.13112.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200407102138.12364.dma147@mieland-programming.de> <20040710220519.GA17803@violet.grantgoodyear.org> <200407110039.03625.dma147@mieland-programming.de> <200407102037.13112.vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:54:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Joseph Booker" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some important questions to the officals of www.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 1baf6d7a-8211-4ed3-b28d-80fab9f6ca60 X-Archives-Hash: d3c2f0e05a913af4f4e2173c110f1995 On Sat, July 10, 2004 7:37 pm, Mike Frysinger said: > On Saturday 10 July 2004 06:39 pm, Alexander Mieland wrote: >> Daniel and me, Alex, got the idea of a database which contains merge >> times >> of all currently available (unmasked) gentoo packages for x86 >> architecture. > > another useful thing you could do is stick all the CONTENTS files into = a > database and put a front end on it ... > then users can search it and ask the question 'what package provides th= is > file' ... granted the results wont be 100% (different USE/arch/etc...) = but > it's better than nothing > -mike > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > Better yet, use loops with equery to find packages installing into the same files to prevent this: [19:44][pts/0][joe@Athena ~] % equery belongs /etc/mailcap Searching for file '/etc/mailcap' in *... mail-client/pine-4.60 (/etc/mailcap) net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 (/etc/mailcap) net-p2p/bittorrent-3.4.2 (/etc/mailcap) --=20 Joseph Booker joe @ irc.neoturbine.net jj110888 @ irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list