On Tuesday 25 October 2005 07:13, Richard Freeman wrote: > Ben Skeggs wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 09:58 -0400 schrieb Mark Haney: > >>What ebuild is dig part of? I can't find it anywhere and it's very > >>handy to have. > > > > net-dns/bind-tools > > It probably would be nice if somebody could expand the online package > database to include a list of installed files. If you already have a > package installed you can always use equery to find out what provided a > particular file. However, if you don't have it installed it isn't > always obvious where you can get it. > > I've seen objections raised to the fact that files installed can vary > based on USE settings, etc. Perhaps a good starting point would be just > to catalog what each package installs on the default x86 profile without > any USE changes. Sure, it might only be a 99% solution, but it seems > like we're going without simply for the sake of the 1% of packages like > VNC which actually build more files if you have a USE flag set... > > Sorry - not really amd64-specific - more like a GLEP. It just seemed > relevant to the discussion here... I tried writing such a service once. <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64/4043>
I designed a system where it took feedback from consenting users, sending the file lists back to my server, were I was going to do some data crunching. The data from just _my_ system was over 60 MB.
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