On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 02:07:08PM +0900, Douglas Anderson wrote: > Hi, does anyone use --category filtering in equery belongs? I want to > get rid of it, or at least deprecate it. My reasoning: > > * We use 'equery belongs' when don't know to what package a file > belongs. Even if we have a suspicion, most users would have to look up > the category of the package before typing it in. > * Even if you happen to know the exact category of the package that > installed the file (why are you using belongs?), typing > --category=app-portage takes more time than is saved by filtering by > category (about 5 seconds more by my unscientific test). > > Even in a script setting, I see no use for this. The time saved is minuscule: > > $ time equery belongs /usr/bin/equery --category app-portage > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/equery in app-portage... ] > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1 (/usr/bin/equery) > > real 0m4.002s > user 0m3.680s > sys 0m0.076s > $ time equery belongs /usr/bin/equery > [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/equery in *... ] > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1 (/usr/bin/equery) > > real 0m4.205s > user 0m3.738s > sys 0m0.102s
You should do profiling, and *verify* category actually works; it should be able to make a world of difference. Case in point via pkgcore- ferri...@beast ~ $ time pquery --owns /usr/bin/equery app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1 real 0m1.162s user 0m1.142s sys 0m0.020s ferri...@beast ~ $ time pquery --owns /usr/bin/equery 'app-portage/*' app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1 real 0m0.168s user 0m0.156s sys 0m0.011s Yes it's not equery, but I *know* pkgcores implementation works thus using it to point out the speed difference if implemented correctly. It would probably help if the category support was enabled in the code, also (quick check of equery shows the cat filtering is disabled). ~harring
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