From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:56:56 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84pts6thyf.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <84bs3xsyi8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <101220021125583826%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <84k7ifo3s2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> <121220021419243187%anil@null.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039770188 9585 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 09:03:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Mlip-0002Tz-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:03:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Mlgb-0006pY-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:00:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951f511.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f511.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.245.17) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039769818 36464882 217.81.245.17 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PizxneJO5G0j1Js0NcVan5KWRpg= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348805 gnu.emacs.help:108077 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4608 Anil writes: > Let us say a slightly enhanced version of "ls" could tell you not only > that a file is owned by root, wheel, etc., but also "belongs" to the > System or a user or a package like TeX or Emacs-29.9, and maybe even > its type within that package (src, doc, bin...). Linux distributions have this. For example, in Debian you can type "dpkg -S /path/to/file" and it will tell you which Debian package the file belongs to. I'm sure rpm offers a similar command, and probably the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD package tools have it, too. (And the fink package management system for MacOS probably has it, too.) That doesn't help generic Unices, though. Nor does it help with programs that you install from the source without building a Debian/RPM/... package. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)