Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

I tried it and it didnt work - though the package I tried it on was a
masked one.

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> writes:
> 
... 
> One piece of man page may indicate otherwise:
> 
>        list <local-opts> pkgspec
>               This command lists packages matching pkgspec in a user-specified
>               combination  of  installed  packages,  packages  which  are  not
>               installed, the portage tree, and the portage overlay tree.
> 
>               <local-opts> must include not include only -I; if -I is used, -p
>               and/or -o must be also.  By default, only installed packages are
>               searched.   -o  searches  only  the  overlay  tree [and possibly
>               installed packages], not the main portage tree.
> 
>               -i, --installed search installed packages (default)
>               -I, --exclude-installed do not search installed packages
>               -p, --portage-tree also search in portage tree (/usr/portage)
>               -o,    --overlay-tree    also    search    in    overlay    tree
>               (/usr/local/portage)
> 
> However, I couldn't piece together what `pkgspec' might mean.
> 
> Can anyone here show some example commands using above with pkgspec
> explained a bit more?
> 

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