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Am Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:57:54 +0200 |
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schrieb Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:43:53 +0400 |
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> ivan ivanov <grobokopatel@××××.ru> wrote: |
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> > Hello, list. I am interesting how to find the package that contains |
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> > the file that i want to have in my system. |
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> > Let's suppose that latex tells me: File upgreek.sty not found. To |
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> > solve this i need to install dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra. But, if |
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> > i do not know this, i have to search the appropriate package. On |
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> > debian i can easily do this by visiting official database |
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> > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . On archlinux i can use |
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> > "pkgfile upgreek.sty" that searches through NOT INSTALLED packages. |
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> > I found site http://www.portagefilelist.de/ that does this job for |
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> > gentoo. But, as i suppose, it is third party project. |
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> > I cannot believe that such great project as gentoo does not have |
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> > OFFICIAL database, that allows to search package by the file name. |
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> > So, the question is: how to find the name of NOT installed package |
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> > that provides needed file? |
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> First of all: |
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> DO NOT HIJACK THREADS. |
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Yes, that is very annoying. |
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> To answer your question, what you want cannot be reliably done. This is |
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> because of how Gentoo works. |
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> In Debian for example, someone else builds the packages, they know |
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> exactly what files will be installed ahead of time, and can put them in |
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> a database for you to query. |
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> Gentoo does not work like that. You build the packages, you specify the |
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> USE flags and different flags can easily cause very different lists of |
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> files to be installed. So the only person that can know exactly what |
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> files you will install is you, there cannot ever be a 100% correct |
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> database of this. Trust me, this has considered many times, you are not |
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> the first. |
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> http://www.portagefilelist.de/ is your best bet, it doesn't get better |
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> than that. |
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Actually, for the special case of latex packages, his best bet is |
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dev-tex/texmfind. |
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HTH |
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-- |
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Marc Joliet |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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