From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7ApW-0005Qs-RA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:51:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7MBmsj7009503; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:48:54 GMT Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7MBhE2Q026900 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:43:14 GMT Received-SPF: pass (newton.gmurray.org.uk: domain of graham@gmurray.org.uk designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender) receiver=newton.gmurray.org.uk; client-ip=127.0.0.1; helo=newton.gmurray.org.uk; envelope-from=graham@gmurray.org.uk; x-software=spfmilter 0.97 http://www.acme.com/software/spfmilter/ with libspf2-1.0.0; Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (graham@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7MBhtS9026552 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:43:55 +0100 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v0.1.1 newton.gmurray.org.uk j7MBhtS9026552 DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nowsp; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200507; t=1124711035; h=Received:X-Authentication-Warning:From:To:Subject: References:X-Hashcash:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:User-Agent: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=VnfkSvuSOoVDQ3OyID0jLYmRueMRwG7oJGEDwt rkGMdHaRt3qybTlCMc6fiHbHF9e4flw9j+INMmKAOAANk2Gw== Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7MBhsCg026551; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:43:54 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides" References: <87fyt2btbv.fsf@newsguy.com> <1124680020.26613.15.camel@localhost> <20050822152043.B343.NICK@rout.co.nz> X-Hashcash: 1:22:050822:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org::xva9HecquPf/TWQm:00000000000000000000000000000000061Rs Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:43:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050822152043.B343.NICK@rout.co.nz> (Nick Rout's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:36:12 +1200") Message-ID: <87wtmejix1.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 00c40224-3d9a-4280-8b28-318c9dee407b X-Archives-Hash: 62d3610a4ee930c809045ce5abfff57d Nick Rout 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'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list