Apparently, though unproven, at 19:25 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Kfir Lavi
did opine thusly:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not
> currently installed in the system?
> For example:
> $ equery belongs zzdir
> [ Searching for file(s) zzdir in *... ]
> dev-libs/zziplib-0.13.59-r1 (/usr/bin/zzdir)
>
> $ eix -I zziplib
> [I] dev-libs/zziplib
> Available versions: 0.13.58-r1 0.13.59-r1 {doc sdl static-libs test}
> Installed versions: 0.13.59-r1(09:22:31 10/30/10)(sdl -doc
> -static-libs -test)
> Homepage: http://zziplib.sourceforge.net/
> Description: Lightweight library used to easily extract data
> from files archived in a single zip file
>
>
> Here zziplib is installed.
> I would like equery return the same output when zziplib is not installed.
It's not totally possible as Dale and Alex said. The site they gave works well
fpr the most part. But there's another way -
just ask here :-)
Seriously, it works. Someone is bound to have what you need and will run an
equery depends for you. Luckily, the question you ask is actually quite rare.
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
