Lord Sauron wrote:
> My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish
> things.  That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic.
> This NEVER happened in Debian.

Yeah, emerge should probably start caching this info for faster
searches. emerge overall though got a pretty solid speedup in 2.1.

> I also am considering trying to adapt aptitude to Gentoo.  I think
> aptitude is the best thing since...  anyways, I love aptitude and want
> to make it portage-friendly.  Just having a command-line package
> browser like aptitude in Gentoo would be awesome.
> 
> Now is the time to tell me how incredibly stupid I am for imagining
> something like that.  Otherwise I might just fire up KDevelop, grab a
> copy of aptitude, and start working.  I'm known to do things like
> that.

Might wanna take a look through the stuff in app-portage/ before you
start. I'm a fan of porthole.

Thanks,
Donnie

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