> | In general when you do not know what package contains a tool you need, > | how do you discover the package name containing the tool? > > Google it :) I heard a rumour that Marius was working on a program for > centrally tracking 'what everything installs', but I don't think it's > beyond the ideas phase yet. It's somewhat tricky to do, what with our > packages not having static content like other distros do.
...and if google doesn't work, the best 'tool' is to ask here. People often do it. -- $ ls -lart /bin/ls: you must be root to use LART -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list