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