Pfl Provides whatprovides on Gentoo

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:05:37 +1000

On Fedora or CentOS, on way to find out what package providing a file we can use yum whatprovides [FILENAME] or dnf whatprovides [FILENAME] on a DNF-aware system.

# dnf whatprovides tmux
Last metadata expiration check: 2:33:06 ago on Wed 09 Sep 2020 09:45:07 PM AEST.
tmux-3.0a-2.fc32.x86_64 : A terminal multiplexer
Repo        : @System
Matched from:
Provide    : tmux = 3.0a-2.fc32

tmux-3.0a-2.fc32.x86_64 : A terminal multiplexer
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Provide    : tmux = 3.0a-2.fc32

I really need this similar tool on Gentoo, and it looks like the emerge command doesn’t have this function built it. Fortunately, there is a utility called e-file (provided by pfl package) which kinda provides this whatprovides option as in yum and dnf.

Whatprovides on Kenno's Open Note

Pfl Provides whatprovides on Gentoo