Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

[Massimiliano Ziccardi <massimiliano.ziccardi@gmail.com>]

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> Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not
> installed.  It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't
> know.
>

Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind
of database to ask what package contains a certain file....

Now I know it works differently...

It would be neat if it could do that tho.  Just have no idea how it could.
>  ;-)
>

I think querying an online database could be a nice solution.

Thanks!

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la<http://libxfce4util.la>
>>>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la
>>>> <http://libxfce4util.la>  in *... ]
>>>> #
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed.
>>>
>>>
>> If it weren't installed it wouldn't be able to announce what it was
>> searching for and where   :-)
>>
>>
>>
>
> Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not
> installed.  It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't
> know.  Then I posted a way to find out even if a package is not installed.
>  I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many
> ages ago.
>
> It would be neat if it could do that tho.  Just have no idea how it could.
>  ;-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>

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