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On Saturday 14 April 2007 07:23:59 Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> equery takes the guesswork out of package manangement: |
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> | dan@pascal ~ $ equery belongs gdbm.so |
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> | [ Searching for file(s) gdbm.so in *... ] |
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> | dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 (/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/gdbm.so) |
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> | dev-lang/ruby-1.8.5_p2 (/usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/gdbm.so) |
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> your results may differ. Specifically, I don't think it lists |
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> packages that aren't installed -- but I may be wrong. |
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Indeed there exists no authoritative source that can be used to show that if |
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no package on your system claims to own a given file... |
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http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/cgi-bin/pfs-web.pl is the closest |
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you can get currently.. |
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> note also that you can check to see why you need them... |
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Although those results aren't always entirely reliable (as I've explained at |
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length before on this list). |
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Bo Andresen |
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