Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:00:08 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > I don't know why it didn't occur to me to check for a make.conf > variable instead of an environment variable or USE flag. Of course > now that I know that make.conf variable's name, I have found it in few > other places in the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-10, Grant Taylor wrote: > I took pause for a moment wondering if this was something I typed or > not. ;-) I know what you mean. :) -- Grant (the other one)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/10/20 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: Yes, that works! Good. Thanks!! You're welcome. I don't know why it didn't occur to me to check for a make.conf variable instead of an environment variable or USE flag. Of course now that I know that make.conf variable's name, I have found it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Dale wrote: > >> Equery used to behave like emerge does now, and maybe always has. > Really? Equery used to do fuzzy search by default, where it returns > package that don't actually contain the search string? > > What I liked about emerge --search, is that

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-10, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 4/10/20 10:08 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Yes, I'm aware I can add "--fuzzy-search n" to make it act sane, but >> is there an environment variable or USE flag or _something_ to make >> emerge --search do the right thing by default? > Does adding it to

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-10, Dale wrote: > Equery used to behave like emerge does now, and maybe always has. Really? Equery used to do fuzzy search by default, where it returns package that don't actually contain the search string? What I liked about emerge --search, is that it would show you both the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, at 12:08, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless, >>> unrelated results when you do a search. WTF is the point of returning >>> a bunch of packages that

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-10, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, at 12:08, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless, >> unrelated results when you do a search. WTF is the point of returning >> a bunch of packages that don't contain the search