On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Phillip Koebbe <phillip.koe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > >> 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. >> > > I guess my memory is worse than I thought. I seem to recall the behavior > we're discussing when I used Debian regularly 10ish years ago. My mistake. >
You could run "auto-apt search <some_file>" a long time ago, but it certainly didn't just pop up a useful comment if you typed an unknown command at the prompt... Scott _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
