On 9/6/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
as someone already said emerge eix
then run
update-eix (you need to be root to do that part)
this creates some sort of very quick index to your ebuilds which is MUCH
faster to search than emerge -s.
then just use
eix searchterm
...
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Another good script/program to try is esearch. Just "emerge esearch" then do "eupdatedb" to update the index of ebuilds. Then, the next time you do an "emerge sync", you can just type "esync" instead and it will update portage and your esearch database. It also prints out all of the updated packages in a nice fashion after the sync. With esearch, you can type "esearch searchterm" to search for packages. From my understanding (I have never really looked into it), it is basically locate that only searches through portage. It is one of my favorite gentoo tools and I would highly recommend it.
Preston
