Prompt what package to install when it is missing

[Scott Webster]

Presumably the "easy" thing we could do is keep track of which files
exist in the binary archives...

Scott

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 16:17, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> Other times, we want to know what port provides a certain header or
>> library we don't have on our systems that's causing some port to fail to
>> build because someone forgot a dependency.
>
> This we need anyway, as it's a basis for what's being requested.
>
>>
>> What do Ubuntu or other distributions do, and how do they do them? I
>> haven't used them.
>
> They define in an /etc/profile.d inclusion a command-not-found trap that
> queries a master database (a la "port provides" but against a database of
> file locations if someone had every port installed) and suggests installing
> (one of the) packages that provides it.
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