On 08/16/10 19:47, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: >> Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not >> installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't >> know. >> > Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind > of database to ask what package contains a certain file.... > > Now I know it works differently... > > It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could. >> ;-) >> > I think querying an online database could be a nice solution. > > Thanks! > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: >>>> >>>>> # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la<http://libxfce4util.la> >>>>> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la >>>>> <http://libxfce4util.la> in *... ] >>>>> # >>>>> " >>>> Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed. >>> If it weren't installed it wouldn't be able to announce what it was >>> searching for and where :-) >> Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not >> installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't >> know. Then I posted a way to find out even if a package is not installed. >> I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many >> ages ago. >> >> It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could. >> ;-) >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) Yeah, sorry, I only included that "equery belongs" bit last time to show that it was installed on my system, and that the libxfce4util package installed it. I didn't mean to say you should look for it there; it's not going to find it, as has been pointed out before. My only point was that emerging libxfce4util *should* have installed that file; since it didn't, I would assume you need to look at that emerge process to find out why; either it's not building it for some reason, or not installing it after it's been built.
Jake Moe
