On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:56:53 -0400 Zachary P. Landau wrote:

> 
> My first question is, what package is ping in with gentoo?  I know
> normally it is with netkit, but gentoo split up netkit into a bunch of
> packages, and none of them seem to have ping in it.  Somehow within
> the past day or so, ping disappeared.  I'm guessing I somehow unmerged
> whatever package it was in, although that sounds unlikely to me.

It moved from netkit-base to iputils.

> My second question is, is there a good resource to find out what
> package a specific program is in, if you don't already have it
> installed?  It would help in my situation, but there have been other
> times.  Some are pretty obvious, but a lot of the little unix
> utilities don't come in a package on their own, they are part of
> something much bigger.

AFAIK it's not possible if the package is not installed.

Marius

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