On 2012-12-12 15:48, Aaron Schneider wrote: | On 12/12/2012 10:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: | >Oh boy, how long do we have this collisions? For years, it seems. | | I request a feature to detect package collision, and furthermore | suggest which package to install when an user tries to run a program | which is not installed but is available from a package.
This helps: $ cygcheck --help ... -f, --find-package find the package to which FILE belongs $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/ls coreutils-8.15-1 I wouldn't want the screen to be filled with messages every time I mispell a command that might exist in some package. Jari