On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 16:05, Scott Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Phillip Koebbe > <[email protected]> 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... Or "apt-cache search" etc., but in terms of the history of dpkg and apt it's a recent development. RPM-based Linuxes took even longer to get the capability, even though it was trivial to implement (simply add a complete package database and provide wrappers that search it instead of the system one). -- brandon s allbery [email protected] wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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