On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:28:16PM -0800, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> What I suspectmight be happening here is that I, as well as R Dennison and
> others, are so used to things like tff2pd being avaible by default, we
> forget those are really "optional" tools and are being intalled as
> "standard" options.
> But as the Linux (insert your favorite here) Desktop has matured, we use
> the command line less and less.
>
> Now because we use them less, the developers are starting to leave some of
> them out of the standard install. We don't use it for a while, don't miss
> it for a while, then forget where it came from.
>
> At least, thats MY story and I'm sticking to it!!
>
> Jim G
Gentoo has some really impressive tools. One of them is pfl, a searchable
online file/package database for Gentoo. It uses e-file to find what these
commands get installed by:
$ e-file tiff2pdf
would tell you it's in media-libs/tiff in Gentoo.
I'm sure some of those distros you guys use have similar tools.
Peace,
Bruce
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