whohas: A Cross-Platform Command Line Tool for Querying Multiple Package Lists
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Summary
whohas is a cross-platform command line tool written in Perl that allows users to query multiple package lists simultaneously across various Linux distributions (Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, etc.), BSD systems (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), and other platforms (Fink, MacPorts, Cygwin). It was designed primarily to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds, and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from, but is also useful for normal users seeking software availability across different systems.
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whohas was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from
it can also be used by normal users who want to know
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