On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 16:17, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Other times, we want to know what port provides a certain header or > library we don't have on our systems that's causing some port to fail to > build because someone forgot a dependency. > This we need anyway, as it's a basis for what's being requested. > What do Ubuntu or other distributions do, and how do they do them? I > haven't used them. > They define in an /etc/profile.d inclusion a command-not-found trap that queries a master database (a la "port provides" but against a database of file locations if someone had every port installed) and suggests installing (one of the) packages that provides it. -- brandon s allbery [email protected] wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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