On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:44:23PM -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2005 9:35 PM, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > >How about the equivalent of this but for a package that is not
> > >installed?  Now that would really interest me a lot!
> > 
> > not sure if this what you mean, but:
> > 
> > apt-cache search <regex>
> > 
> > will list packages that you can get via apt-get, where <regex> is a regular
> > expression that matches what you are looking for.
> 
> Close.  Can apt-cache search list all the files that that package will 
> install?

for clarity, are you looking for something like emerge -pv <package>?
what that does (for those who are unfamiliar with portage and gentoo)
is print out a list of all the dependencies that would need to be 
installed for <package>.  it sounds kind of like that's what you're
asking for, but i'm not 100% certain...

either way, i don't actually know the answer to your question, but maybe
this will help someone else answer it :)


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