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From: Joseph Booker <joe@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some important questions to the officals of www.gentoo.org
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:54:32
Message-Id: 32822.68.78.46.139.1089507254.squirrel@68.78.46.139
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some important questions to the officals of www.gentoo.org by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sat, July 10, 2004 7:37 pm, Mike Frysinger said:
2 > On Saturday 10 July 2004 06:39 pm, Alexander Mieland wrote:
3 >> Daniel and me, Alex, got the idea of a database which contains merge
4 >> times
5 >> of all currently available (unmasked) gentoo packages for x86
6 >> architecture.
7 >
8 > another useful thing you could do is stick all the CONTENTS files into a
9 > database and put a front end on it ...
10 > then users can search it and ask the question 'what package provides this
11 > file' ... granted the results wont be 100% (different USE/arch/etc...) but
12 > it's better than nothing
13 > -mike
14 >
15 > --
16 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
17 >
18 >
19
20 Better yet, use loops with equery to find packages installing into the
21 same files to prevent this:
22
23 [19:44][pts/0][joe@Athena ~] % equery belongs /etc/mailcap
24 Searching for file '/etc/mailcap' in *...
25 mail-client/pine-4.60 (/etc/mailcap)
26 net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 (/etc/mailcap)
27 net-p2p/bittorrent-3.4.2 (/etc/mailcap)
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31 Joseph Booker
32 joe @ irc.neoturbine.net
33 jj110888 @ irc.freenode.net
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