On 2020.04.10 12:21, 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 string when there
is
> is a package name that match the search string exactly?
This doesn't answer your question, but `eix' is way faster and I've
been
using it since I've started using Gentoo.
Alec
Even eix often finds things I think are irrelevant, but I know it's
searching on a regexp, so I'll often do "eix ^string$ if I know the
package and am just looking for the info about it.
Jack
