On Thu, 19 May 2005 12:39:00 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Admittedly, some kind of package content search function somewhere | would be nice, but I am not sure it's possible (or somebody would | probably have done it already).
It's possible to get pretty good results. It's just not very easy. cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | wc for a rough idea of why. You can knock it down a hell of a lot using a trie and then compressing, but it's still a fair bit of data. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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