On Friday 22 September 2006 14:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:39:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I was discussing this with one of the devs in the company > > this morning, and we both want to know how to determine > > which ebuild(s) will install a certain binary/lib that > > isn;t installed yet. Is there an app that does this? > > No, partly because the installed files depend on USE flags > etc. It's not like a binary distro when you can just keep a > database of the contents of each package. The web page I > posted does a good job of this though.
That's what I figured, especially the moving target caused by USE It seems like a whole lotta work, plus a whole lotta changes to the tree plus a whole lotta maintenance in the future, all for a nice-to-have. Which explains why it hasn't been done yet. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
