On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 01:22 +0000, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Jan 2006, at 00:30, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:54 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:33:51 +0000, Stroller wrote: > >> > >>> I'm using esearch at the moment - should I change? > >> > >> I did. eix is basically esearch without the wait. > > > > what wait? I use esearch and I don't have to wait...? > > eix-update completes in just a few seconds, whereas on one of my > systems `eupdatedb` (of esearch) takes perhaps 90 minutes.
aaahhh, the wait for eupdatedb, yes it does take a while (certainly not 90 minutes, more like 5 minutes for me) but then I run it from cron at lunch, so I don't notice... much :) can eix do the following (taken from esearch --help) --searchdesc, -S Search package descriptions as well --fullname, -F Search packages full name (includes category) --instonly, -I Find only packages which are installed --compact, -c More compact output format (there are more from esearch, but these are the main ones I use) -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> <Endy> taniwha: Have you TESTED this one? :) <taniwha> Endy: of course not -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list