On Friday 06 January 2006 21:33, St wrote: > What's eix, then? Apart from a "small utility for searching ebuilds > with indexing for fast results". > > I'm using esearch at the moment - should I change? > > The results of `eix ktorrent` above seem more comprehensive than > those that'd be give by esearch, is that the only advantage? `esync` > takes bleedin' ages on one system here, so if eix was faster I'd use > it in a flash.
The only thing that is slow, is update-eix due to reading the cache (well slow by my definition means >20s). eix -s / -S (or what ever you want to search for) is _really_ fast .. > > Stroller. -- Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux Developer - vserver
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