lanjelot wrote:
but what if <package> isn't merged yet ?

expl:
how do i find out what package i need to emerge so i can use nslookup.

it's something i've been wondering for a while and i just thought it could fit in this thread even though the poster got the answer to his question.

thanks all

It's not easy under any system. My favorite was trying to figure out how to get uuencode stuff under Redhat. It's the sharutils package in case you were wondering.

Google and the Gentoo forums are your friends when trying to find what installs what though most of it fairly straightforward. Gentoo does have some unique issues because the Gentoo "system" is fairly stripped down so things like dig, telnet, or ftp are missing until you add them. That's much of the appeal to many people.

emerge bind-tools to get nslookup, dig, host, etc.

kashani
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