On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:59:32PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote: > Help me understand the use case for frequent local search that I'm not > seeing... Once the software is installed on your machine, why are you > searching for it? I can see doing this once in a great while because the > binary didn't get delivered into a directory that's in your path, and so > you have to figure out where the silly thing actually got placed. Since > I've been running OpenSolaris, I think I've done that a handful of > times. Other than that, I can't think of use cases for most of our users.
One case that comes to mind: you have a file name and would like to work backwards to find its package. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
