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From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:17:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608151717.49786.bulliver@badcomputer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608160157.49303.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>

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quoth the Bo Ørsted Andresen:
>
> $ eix -e at
> * sys-process/at
>      Available versions:  3.1.8-r11 3.1.8-r12
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:           
> ftp://jurix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/jurix/source/chroot/appl/at/ Description:   
>      Queues jobs for later execution
>
> In this particular case I would recommend app-portage/eix for finding it.
> Though not very helpful when you don't know the full path [1] did also show
> the same package when searching for /usr/bin/at. That home page is,
> however, still in a beta state.

Thanks for the great tip Bo!

I have many uses for a portage search tool that doesn't require the app to be 
installed to find it. installing eix now...

-d

-- 
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-15 23:32 [gentoo-user] Which package has at? darren kirby
2006-08-15 23:46 ` Willie Wong
2006-08-16  0:15   ` darren kirby
2006-08-15 23:54 ` Peter Ruskin
2006-08-15 23:57 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-08-16  0:17   ` darren kirby [this message]
2006-08-16  5:54 ` Donnie Berkholz

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