a coprehensive searcheable ports list?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
> Citando Kevin Ballard :
>> If you want to find ports that provide a specific file, there's no
>> way of doing that without having installed the port yet. If you've
>> installed a port you can ask what port provides a given file on disk,
>> but MacPorts does not know what files a given port will provide until
>> it's installed.
>
> Is it planned as a feature request for macports at a point in the  
> future
> to provide such a mechanism (as debian or pkgsrc whose packages  
> contain
> a plist mentioning all the files to be included) ?  This feature would
> be interesting to have for example on the website, and as an addon to
> the provides action of port.

I don't think anyone is working on this.

However, if the project ever gets to the point where it is  
distributing binaries to end users (instead of distributing automated  
build instructions) this would probably not be difficult to add.

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