Simply using the list of installed files to search against is not a hack, is well documented and works exactly as expected. Also, if a file wasn't installed through the package manager, dpkg will tell you as well:

$ dpkg -S weeblefrob
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern *weeblefrob*.
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/weeblefrob
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/weeblefrob.

Only one version of any given package may be installed at any time and to see which version is installed you can use either dpkg -l $package or apt-cache policy $package (this tells you which version would get installed, too). If you want to search for files in all packages (even those not installed), you can use apt-file.

Why would anyone drive around in their laptops? Anyone who has one of those know how quickly they die. Sure, electric cars don't produce CO2 but those batteries aren't exactly environmentally friendly on the inside, they need replacements after a certain amount of cycles and the power for the charger still needs to come from somewhere. Could be coal plants for all we know. Investments in these type of cars are useless, no one will be driving around in these kind of cars for long.

You see, petrol has been used quite successfully for the past 100 years and we need something which will last for at least another 100 years. Perhaps something like, you know, hydrogen.

I don't see how dpkg -S can't do this, why would a filename search against all packages be inadequate? Perhaps an example would be useful:

$ dpkg -S `which git`
git: /usr/bin/git

Here, `which git` returns /usr/bin/git and since packages must not overlap in the filesystem dpkg will always return one package name when given a full path. Even for example with ls, when there's also lsmod, lsof, lsusb, etc.

Zfs, no. But you can use clang and llvm just fine. For jails, there's a plethora of solutions like LXC, VZ and the more elaborate virtualisation solutions like Xen and KVM.

Definately no reason to switch to GNU, though.

apt has never fubar'ed any of my systems without my explicit consent. You get a warning and have to type in 'Yes, do as I say!' before shit happens.

apt is analogous to yum and dpkg is analogous to rpm. With that out of the way:

• dpkg -L package
  Lists files in package package and
• dpkg -S file
  searches for file in all packages (may list multiple packages).

It happens (I've even done so myself when I was younger), but they're just using "Anonymous" to grab attention. Not to hide their tracks.

Fins hack Finland. Nothing to see here, move along.

It lives on in the form of Android, more specifically the java. parts of the Dalvik core library.

So you want to compress and decompress inside the kernel? Really?

And not a single fuck was given.

That's not how woosh works, you don't woosh your own reply.

Sure, go spend some more. When the credit card refuses, just get another one. Hell, Greece does it all the time so why can't we?