On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:52:00 -0500, Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Long time Linux user but new to gentoo and trying to get a good handle on > emerge. > > I recently used emerge to install traceroute. During the install, it noted > that it was installing net-analyzer/traceroute. I wanted to see what other > packages were available under net-analyzer but doing an emerge --search on > net-analyzer came up with nothing. So I tried emerge --searchdesc. That > brought me to my first question:
http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time emerge --searchdesc analyzer > Searching... -/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 21: > ... > real 22m48.548s > user 18m54.880s > sys 3m29.307s > On My 2.4 GHz P4 w/ 1.5 GB RAM: [starbaby: ~]$ time emerge --searchdesc analyzer blah, blah real 0m38.455s user 0m27.550s sys 0m7.063s Using esearch (emerge gentoolkit): [starbaby: ~]$ time esearch --searchdesc analyzer real 0m0.182s user 0m0.155s sys 0m0.016s -- ciao, cj -- [email protected] mailing list
