On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 02:12:42PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> 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 >> > Again, maybe I'm being dense, but that's a common usage for an end user > who (probably) isn't packaging their own software? I'm not saying we > should blow up local search, just trying to justify my claim that it's > rarely used outside of packagers of software.
It's the rpm -qf case that Mike gave earlier. I've definitely used that command myself on Linux systems when trying to determine what package owns a certain file. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
