On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 01:22 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2006, at 00:30, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 20:54 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:33:51 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm using esearch at the moment - should I change?
> >>
> >> I did. eix is basically esearch without the wait.
> >
> > what wait? I use esearch and I don't have to wait...?
>
> eix-update completes in just a few seconds, whereas on one of my
> systems `eupdatedb` (of esearch) takes perhaps 90 minutes.
aaahhh, the wait for eupdatedb, yes it does take a while (certainly not
90 minutes, more like 5 minutes for me) but then I run it from cron at
lunch, so I don't notice... much :)
can eix do the following (taken from esearch --help)
--searchdesc, -S
Search package descriptions as well
--fullname, -F
Search packages full name (includes category)
--instonly, -I
Find only packages which are installed
--compact, -c
More compact output format
(there are more from esearch, but these are the main ones I use)
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
<Endy> taniwha: Have you TESTED this one? :)
<taniwha> Endy: of course not
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