Google is your friend. Many times just putting in the library your looking for gives 
you what you need to know.

> OK, ok, not very bad... :-) But I can imagine situation: I 
> compile some 
> program, which has no ebuild, and it depends on some library, 
> which is 
> in standard ebuild package, but I cannot find it, if its name is 
> completely different from ebuild's name.This didn't happen to me yet 
> (I'm using gentoo for a week :-)). What happened to me was, that I 
> desperately searched for my favorite /sbin/ip for several 
> hours. How can 
> I know, that it's in iproute and not in iputils. I have to 
> install it to 
> realize! I think there should be some index - web page/application is 
> sufficient - listing all files in packages compiled with maximum USE 
> flags. Doesn't Gentoo have something like GRP? It could serve 
> this purpose.

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