man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages. I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the system. I usually end up googling ...
BillK On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:12 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Rennie deGraaf schreef: > > What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular > > file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For ... > > equery belongs equery > [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ] > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5 (/usr/bin/equery) > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5 > (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre5/equery) > > :-) > > HTH, > Holly -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
