[arch-dev-public] Filename search for Arch

[Xavier]

eliott wrote:
>
> 3. Why would someone need to search to see what owns a file that they
> don't have on their system, with pacman?
>

This is apparently regularly needed, I see the !owns command of phrik in 
#archlinux used every day.
An user might know that he needs some library file, or some binary, 
without knowing the package name.
Here is a typical example :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4824#comment14448