On Friday 26 May 2006 07:48, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Friday 26 May 2006 04:12, Lord Sauron wrote: > >> sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. > >> > >> On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: > >> > > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so > >> > > long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less > >> > > time to work with. I don't think it should be this slow. I'm not > >> > > even talking about compile-times - I know and expect those to be > >> > > slow, but just raw package searching and stuff is not that fast. > >> > > >> > Do like the rest of us. emerge eix and use that for searching. Make > >> > sure to run update-eix everytime you have sync'ed portage or better > >> > yet, use eix-sync to sync portage. > >> > > >> > -- > > > > or better, install esearch. It is as fast as eix, and it comes with > > esync. > > > > So instead of emerge sync AND update-eix, you just run esync. > > Sory, I fail to see the advantage. > > eix comes with eix-sync, which will do a emerge --sync and update-eix. >
ok, but still less to type ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
