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From: Massimiliano Ziccardi <massimiliano.ziccardi@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:48:19
Message-Id: AANLkTikYoqpwirOqzOw7HbeUp6jqYjzL6ouCAv=+1CUp@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild by Dale
1 >
2 > Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not
3 > installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't
4 > know.
5 >
6
7 Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind
8 of database to ask what package contains a certain file....
9
10 Now I know it works differently...
11
12 It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could.
13 > ;-)
14 >
15
16 I think querying an online database could be a nice solution.
17
18 Thanks!
19
20 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
21
22 > Peter Humphrey wrote:
23 >
24 >> On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote:
25 >>
26 >>
27 >>> Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
28 >>>
29 >>>
30 >>>> # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la<http://libxfce4util.la>
31 >>>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la
32 >>>> <http://libxfce4util.la> in *... ]
33 >>>> #
34 >>>> "
35 >>>>
36 >>>>
37 >>> Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed.
38 >>>
39 >>>
40 >> If it weren't installed it wouldn't be able to announce what it was
41 >> searching for and where :-)
42 >>
43 >>
44 >>
45 >
46 > Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not
47 > installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't
48 > know. Then I posted a way to find out even if a package is not installed.
49 > I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many
50 > ages ago.
51 >
52 > It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could.
53 > ;-)
54 >
55 > Dale
56 >
57 > :-) :-)
58 >
59 >

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