From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:43:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtmejix1.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050822152043.B343.NICK@rout.co.nz> (Nick Rout's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:36:12 +1200")
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> writes:
> neither equery nor any other program can predict what will be installed
> in a package, because that varies with architecture and USE flags.
>
> So there is no direct equivalent.
However it should be possible to know all of files that the package
may install. Also, I suspect that the main use of such a search
utility is to find the package which provides either an executable or
a library. In many cases these are installed irrespective of which USE
flags are given. So it would still be useful to have a search function
which would tell you, for example, that 'dig' is installed by package
'net-dns/bind-tools'.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-21 23:55 [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides" Rennie deGraaf
2005-08-22 0:12 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-22 1:16 ` W.Kenworthy
2005-08-22 2:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2005-08-22 3:07 ` W.Kenworthy
2005-08-22 3:36 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-22 9:25 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-22 11:43 ` Graham Murray [this message]
2005-08-22 14:21 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-22 2:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Brett I. Holcomb
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