On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Martin Horak wrote:

> That's very bad for me... :-( How do you find package, which offers 
> libsomething.so.1 then?
> Aren't there any plans for search engine similar to rpmfind?
> 

I don't understand why that's bad for you. What problem are you having 
that you need to know what package has a particular library or other file? 
It's often not hard to figure out from the name of the library which 
package it's in. Emerge handles all dependencies if the script is written 
correctly.

RPM has an advantage over emerge in that regard, if you can call it an 
advantage. RPMs have all the files in them. Since emerge builds from 
source, we don't know what files will be included until it's already 
installed at which point we can enumerate. I don't really see the point of  
creating a lot more disk space overhead to house such a database even if 
that disk space is housed in the network somewhere.

Ric


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