On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:43:53 +0400 ivan ivanov <grobokopa...@list.ru> wrote:
> Hello, list. I am interesting how to find the package that contains > the file that i want to have in my system. > Let's suppose that latex tells me: File upgreek.sty not found. To > solve this i need to install dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra. But, if > i do not know this, i have to search the appropriate package. On > debian i can easily do this by visiting official database > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . On archlinux i can use > "pkgfile upgreek.sty" that searches through NOT INSTALLED packages. > I found site http://www.portagefilelist.de/ that does this job for > gentoo. But, as i suppose, it is third party project. > > I cannot believe that such great project as gentoo does not have > OFFICIAL database, that allows to search package by the file name. > > So, the question is: how to find the name of NOT installed package > that provides needed file? > First of all: DO NOT HIJACK THREADS. You replied to an existing thread, changed the subject line, deleted the content and type your question. This is a big nono and is considered exceptionally rude (it makes everyone else's mail client do strange things with displaying threads). To start a new thread, compose an entirely new mail and address it to gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To answer your question, what you want cannot be reliably done. This is because of how Gentoo works. In Debian for example, someone else builds the packages, they know exactly what files will be installed ahead of time, and can put them in a database for you to query. Gentoo does not work like that. You build the packages, you specify the USE flags and different flags can easily cause very different lists of files to be installed. So the only person that can know exactly what files you will install is you, there cannot ever be a 100% correct database of this. Trust me, this has considered many times, you are not the first. http://www.portagefilelist.de/ is your best bet, it doesn't get better than that. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
