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On Tuesday 25 October 2005 07:13, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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> Ben Skeggs wrote: |
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> > Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 09:58 -0400 schrieb Mark Haney: |
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> >>What ebuild is dig part of? I can't find it anywhere and it's very |
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> >>handy to have. |
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> > |
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> > net-dns/bind-tools |
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> It probably would be nice if somebody could expand the online package |
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> database to include a list of installed files. If you already have a |
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> package installed you can always use equery to find out what provided a |
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> particular file. However, if you don't have it installed it isn't |
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> always obvious where you can get it. |
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> I've seen objections raised to the fact that files installed can vary |
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> based on USE settings, etc. Perhaps a good starting point would be just |
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> to catalog what each package installs on the default x86 profile without |
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> any USE changes. Sure, it might only be a 99% solution, but it seems |
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> like we're going without simply for the sake of the 1% of packages like |
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> VNC which actually build more files if you have a USE flag set... |
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> Sorry - not really amd64-specific - more like a GLEP. It just seemed |
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> relevant to the discussion here... |
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I tried writing such a service once. |
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<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64/4043> |
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I designed a system where it took feedback from consenting users, sending the |
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file lists back to my server, were I was going to do some data crunching. The |
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data from just _my_ system was over 60 MB. |
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