Re: pkg/59998: index packages by plists

["Taylor R Campbell via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/59998; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/59998: index packages by plists
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:27:08 +0000

 Credit: This locate(1) method was inspired by a talk by Rodrigo Osorio
 at FOSDEM a couple years ago about FreeBSD's pkg-provides.  (I haven't
 looked into how it works beyond that talk, nor into others like
 Debian's apt-file search.)