On 04/09/2014 07:00, Marcus von Appen wrote: >> - I often grep all plists to find which port could possibly provide such >> > header or such library (among non-installed ports, of course).
> I do the same, but would argue that such a query service should belong to or
> offered by a pkg search (as sort of counterpart to pkg which).
We've toyed with that idea -- allowing 'pkg search' or similar to search
on any file in any package known in the repositories. The biggest
problem is that including all that data in the package catalogues would
bloat their size by a very large amount.
Rather than bloating the catalogues for any use, there was a separate
index of files. Not sure whether that's being routinely built on the
FreeBSD pkg cluster at the moment -- probably not, as it was only ever
experimental, and didn't have any generally available consumers.
In many ways, I'd prefer to have this sort of functionality available as
a web-app, thus saving users the necessity of downloading megabytes of
data about ports / packages they would never use or care about. Needs
someone to step up and write that application though.
Cheers,
Matthew
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