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From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Dig
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:48:29 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117124636.27FA.NICK@rout.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20051117T001637-682@post.gmane.org>


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:23:50 +0000 (UTC)
James wrote:

> Debian has such an index, and I often visit to see what software can do what.
> Unless I've missed the wiki, there's really no place at all to read about
> the various pacakges available on Gentoo.
> 
> James

Read the archives. This is impractical because any given package may or
may not install a particular file depending on what USE flags are
applied to the compilation process.

And i doubt that there is a system in existence that has every package
installed - for a start some packages block others.

-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16  3:40 [gentoo-user] Dig Willie Wong
2005-11-16  3:48 ` Nick Rout
2005-11-16 16:08 ` [gentoo-user] Dig James
2005-11-16 17:04   ` Willie Wong
2005-11-16 23:23     ` James
2005-11-16 23:48       ` Nick Rout [this message]
2005-11-17  3:11         ` James
2005-11-17  3:33           ` Nick Rout
2005-11-17  3:48             ` Iain Buchanan
2005-11-17  4:11             ` James
2005-11-17  5:04               ` Nick Rout
2005-11-17 22:38                 ` James
2005-11-18 10:34                   ` Nick Rout

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