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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:23:57
Message-Id: 200610261419.38974.harmgeerts@home.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to discover what is the package of a given file? by Neil Hodges
1 On Thursday 26 October 2006 03:03, Neil Hodges wrote:
2 > On 16:35 Wed 25 Oct , Justin Findlay wrote:
3 > > On AD 2006 October 26 Thursday 03:44:29 AM +0530, Vikas Kumar wrote:
4 > > > # equery belongs <file>
5 > > >
6 > > > equery comes with gentoolkit.
7 > > >
8 > > > # emerge gentoolkit
9 > >
10 > > You can alternatively try qfile from portage-utils.
11 > >
12 > > # emerge portage-utils
13 > > $ qfile $(which file)
14 >
15 > Isn't qfile deprecated?
16
17 It's not.
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19 qpkg from gentoolkit is deprecated (and is installed outside $PATH)
20
21 portage-utils also has a qpkg which is not deprecated (and installed in $PATH)
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23 FYI: On gentoo's mailing lists bottom-posting is prefered.
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