Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/08/2015 00:13, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Not doing too well with google on this... >> >> Can anyong direct me to a database for gentoo where one can find >> out which tools/files go with which pkg. >> >> > > As far as I know, there's no such thing. On Ubuntu when you install > firefox, you get an exact list of files that is the same for everyone. > On Gentoo when you install firefox, the list of files you get depends on > USE and whether the dev did any tweaks to the ebuild today. > > There's been some efforts at making such a database, for example > http://www.portagefilelist.de > but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Maybe another project has picked > up the ball but I don't know of any. > > This is not such a big problem as it might appear. If you are familiar > with the Gentoo base system it's usually obvious what package will give > you the file. The exception is basic utilities like cut and head and > tail. They are not tin their own package but in a big utility one, maybe > it's coreutils maybe it's util-linux. I avoid the problem by always > installing both :-) > > Fo9r the rare case where you really can't figure it out, you can always > ask here for someone with the file to equery it and find where it came from. > >
I use that site, I also run the program that uploads that info, but I to find it not always helpful. For Gentoo, there is just to much that can change from one system to another based on settings/configs. I'm not aware of anyone else trying to do this. Sadly. On those occasions where someone asks what belongs to something, I always do a search here and if I have the info, I reply with it. It's likely about the easiest help a person can provide. Dale :-) :-)
