Actually, it's only fairly recently that Linux package managers started shipping with a master package manifest that could be queried for this kind of thing, and it's an add-in instead of basic behavior; as such, it's only "fundamental" in the sense that there's only one such manifest to query on any given Linux system.
That said, it's still an add-in we don't have the ability to provide as yet. It strikes me as not very difficult to create an extensible mechanism that different package providers could opt in to, by the way. Not that I would expect e.g. the Mac App Store to do so. (Also perhaps not a good idea given the kinds of messes you can get in to if you have development packages from both e.g. MacPorts and Fink installed.) -- brandon s allbery [email protected] wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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