for the gentoo users on the list, a quite neat utility: emerge esearch
you probably know that emerge -s keyword takes a long time, and emerge -S keyword even longer. I have just installed esearch, which indexes the portage list to create real fast searches. cool time emerge -S vmware [snip output] real 1m32.636s user 0m41.190s sys 0m9.390s time esearch -S vmware [snip again] real 0m0.318s user 0m0.290s sys 0m0.030s of course you have to build an index first, and presumably each time you emerge rsync time eupdatedb * indexing: 0 ebuilds to go * esearch-index generated in 1 minute(s) and 17 second(s) * indexed 6717 ebuilds * size of esearch-index: 1056 kB real 1m18.269s user 0m48.160s sys 0m9.980s also included the undocumented esync, described thus in the Changelog "Added esync, a script which does `emerge sync` followed by a `eupdatedb` and then shows the updates during the sync." -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
