Le 18/07/2015 06:58, Peter Olson a écrit :
>> On July 17, 2015 at 11:38 PM Gregory Nowak <greg@???> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:16:06PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
>>> Some might ask, Why not just one simple package?
>>>
>>> That's where Devuan can bring packaging sanity in as well.
>> megabyte for example. Granted, this may not be the best example, but
>> it does illustrate I think the reasons for smaller multiple packages
>> VS. one big package.
> NOT DEVUAN 1.0 ...
>
> I agree. Debian accommodates the lean server install with just the binaries
> and also allows selective documentation install and development and debugging
> installs.
>
> My principal complaint is with 'apt cache search' which is a low level tool that
> doesn't expose any of the structure of the repository.
>
> Many times I want to install a package I know the name of (approximately) and I
> have to read or grep through hundreds of search results for related packages
> that have nothing to do with installing (or even identifying by name) the
> package I want, not to mention how complete the doc/devel/debug environment I
> might like.
>
> </rant>
>
> Peter Olson
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>
Maybe I didn't understand what you mean, but did you try apt-file?
apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search /usr/bin/whatever
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