[Nottingham] Gentoo - Finding packages of missing commands

Robert Davies nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Sep 2 08:48:01 2003


On Monday 01 Sep 2003 17:29, Ben Blackburne wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:45, Robert Davies wrote:
> > is there an easy way to look up a command name in a package, to
> > emerge it?
>
> Not AFAIK. If you find out, I would like to know. Gentoo could really do
> with a packages.gentoo.org, like Debian's. I guess this is more
> complicated as the contents of a package change based on what build
> options are used.

I suppose a start would be to take a GRP platform and build indexes for all 
the packages from that.  These sort of things don't have to be 100% complete, 
so long as it finds 95% quickly, it's useful.

Rob