Re: Re: emege query

The Eye <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:38:55PM +0200, Denys Duchier wrote:
> David Updegraff <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Is there any way to query the portage database about what
> > package a particular file or directory is associcated with?
> > Something like the equivalent of 'rpm -qf' ?
> 
> install gentoolkit, then invoke "qpkg -f FILE"
> 

is there anything, like a website or something, where I could do such
things for packages which are not yet installed?

such as

"what do I need to emerge to get the 'dig' program"
(which is a question that puzzles me right now)

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