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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
To: 30130@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30130: Add ‘guix whereis’ command
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:16:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sirf3fo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

Hello,

I would find really useful if Guix was providing a tool similar to what
‘dnf whatprovides’ or ‘apt-file’ does.  I mean something to check what
packages provides a particular file (executable/manual/library).

My main use-case is when running a ‘configure’ script which checks an
arbitrary program, I would like ‘guix whereis’ to help me find out what
package I need to install to satisfy its configuration requirement.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
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             reply	other threads:[~2018-01-15 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-15 17:16 Mathieu Lirzin [this message]
2018-01-17 14:05 ` bug#30130: Add ‘guix whereis’ command Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-17  9:39 ` swedebugia
2018-12-17 12:03   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-17 20:55     ` Efraim Flashner
2024-01-30 16:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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