Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:45:34
Message-Id: 20050822152043.B343.NICK@rout.co.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides" by "W.Kenworthy"
1 neither equery nor any other program can predict what will be installed
2 in a package, because that varies with architecture and USE flags.
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4 So there is no direct equivalent.
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6 You either have to work it out for yuorself, ggogle or ask here.
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8 This topic has been covered many times on this list.
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10 If you have a list of binary packages you can make a catalogue of
11 filenames that appear in those binary packages. (rpm, deb etc)
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13 If you have a list of source files, and more than one way of compiling
14 them (USE flags, gentoo) then you cannot make such a catalogue.
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17 On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:07:00 +0800
18 W.Kenworthy wrote:
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22 Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides" Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides" Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>