G'day Frank ...
On 06/10/15 08:27, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
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How about
# yum install 'perl(LWP::UserAgent)'
or local yum equivalent? That's the point of the virtual resource
name, it doesn't matter what the low-level rpm name is.
OK, +1 for my public ignorance rating.
Never knew about this, so thanks for the tip.
Just in case I'm not the only ignorant one, SuSE's zypper also groks ...
# zypper install 'perl(LWP::UserAgent)'
As far as I can tell, the Debian package manager has no comparable
facility and relies on consistent naming of the packages ... this is all
a little moot at the moment as the PCP Debian packaging has not yet
transitioned to the package-for-everything model that is used in the RPM
packaging.
Of course the situation is even less encouraging for emerge and tarball
and Mac OS X and Windows packaging (I'm assuming in the latter two cases).
And an apology ... LWP::UserAgent is delivered in the same named RPM in
RedHat and SuSE (less anarchy than I claimed), but I was searching for
the wrong package name!
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