Re: [gentoo-user] Finding Files in packages

2003-09-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Perhaps it would be better on the gentoo.org website rather than something on the users machines in portage? Say a script run on any new packages when they are released, and a link added to the package list. click on a packagename and get the list of files istalled, perhaps with use flag function

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding Files in packages

2003-09-08 Thread Troy Dack
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:07, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > Thank you for the information. I might file a bug requesting that the tools > support non-installed. Even if they made epm capable that would help but it > may not be possible. > > I could use the last method but then I have to do the downl

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding Files in packages

2003-09-08 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
Thank you for the information. I might file a bug requesting that the tools support non-installed. Even if they made epm capable that would help but it may not be possible. I could use the last method but then I have to do the download and check it out. Thanks. I'll have to think about th

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding Files in packages

2003-09-08 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 10:19, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: > I know there has been lots of discussion about aspects of this. However, > it appears that qpkg, etcat, and epm just won't do some searches. For > example I want to list the files in cdrtools. > > qpkg - must be installed to do that -

[gentoo-user] Finding Files in packages

2003-09-08 Thread Brett I . Holcomb
I know there has been lots of discussion about aspects of this. However, it appears that qpkg, etcat, and epm just won't do some searches. For example I want to list the files in cdrtools. qpkg - must be installed to do that - but I don't want to install it first! epm - not supported yet. et