[Nix-dev] how to find packages by file?

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 15 March 2017 at 16:00, Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
> https://github.com/Enlambda/nix-channelstatus has working RESTful API to
> search by files,
> I plan to publish that as a web service in upcoming weeks.

That's nice, but IMHO we need that info offline. I think it could be
made a part of a channel, like the command-not-found DB, but for all
files, not just binaries.

Debian has apt-file, we should have something similar.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman