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On Friday 22 September 2006 14:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:39:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > I was discussing this with one of the devs in the company |
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> > this morning, and we both want to know how to determine |
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> > which ebuild(s) will install a certain binary/lib that |
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> > isn;t installed yet. Is there an app that does this? |
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> No, partly because the installed files depend on USE flags |
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> etc. It's not like a binary distro when you can just keep a |
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> database of the contents of each package. The web page I |
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> posted does a good job of this though. |
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That's what I figured, especially the moving target caused by |
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USE |
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It seems like a whole lotta work, plus a whole lotta changes to |
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the tree plus a whole lotta maintenance in the future, all for |
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a nice-to-have. Which explains why it hasn't been done yet. |
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alan |
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