On Friday 22 June 2007 04:30, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > ... > > As a quick side question, what is the difference between > --whatprovides and --file (-f)? Looking at the man page, it seems > like whatprovides is a more general case of --file? What sort of > other things besides files could you look for?
I believe it's the other way around. The --whatprovides and --whatrequires only deal with dependencies. They exclude files installed and used internally by the package but that are not part of what the package supplies to the system or to other packages. So --file pertains to a larger set of files. > -- > Jonathan Arnold Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
