Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

["A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Graham Murray wrote:

> However it should be possible to know all of files that the package
> may install.

You would have to write a utility that looked at ALL the possible USE
flags a package could make use of and build a tree that was stored in a
database (not to mention, you would have to actually run the build process
to get the list of files to populate the database for EACH combination
of USE flags!).

Not exactly a trivial undertaking and the resulting database would be very
big.

Binary distributions can do this because they usually dont allow any
customization (i.e. there is just ONE package for say, Pine, usually) and
since its built already they can easily create populate a database.


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