On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 02:11:44PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > *Personally* I would find it most useful if I could search for, say, > "prettyref.sty" with a command like > port searchfile "prettyref.sty"
I'd find that to be a pretty useful feature in general (like apt-file). One could imagine that since we're building packages now we could build an index of which files are in all of the packages... > But on the other hand it probably wouldn't be a bad idea if all the > texlive packages would actually list the list of packages they > contain. For example: I've thought about doing that but some of the lists are pretty long -- texlive-latex-extra has over a thousand packages and there are another few that are over a hundred. It might be worth doing anyway since you could search it with `port search --long_description` (Looking that up just now, I was surprised to find that `port search` doesn't search long_description by default) > Maybe texlive could also ship texlive.tlpdb (or perhaps some subset of > it to make searching for files easier). In the extreme case it should > actually be possible to trigger installation of the required package > when a known file is missing (this is what MikTeX does for example), > but it would require some extra coding. We could easily ship the tlpdb file but it would be a lot more useful with a utility to search it. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports UW CSE http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
