On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:26:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Can anyong direct me to a database for gentoo where one can find > > out which tools/files go with which pkg.
If you mean for installed packages; qlist shows what a package installed, qfile shows which package installed a file. Both are part of portage-utils. If you want the same for uninstalled packages, what Alan said... > 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. I use packages.debian.org. Once I know the Debian package name, it is usually trivial to find the equivalent ebuild. -- Neil Bothwick Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?
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