Re: [gentoo-user] Why doesn't esearch find exact packages? [Bug: 180307]

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 May 2007 18:41:48 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Yes, I can use eix, but I don't have this on all my boxes, nor do I want to install it and maintain yet another package cache and all that (for example, on a dev VMWare guest that I want to keep as small as possible). So use eix

[gentoo-user] Why doesn't esearch find exact packages? [Bug: 180307]

2007-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
Is this a known issue with a fix coming or is this by design (which seems shockingly short-sighted). I searched bugs.gentoo.org for quite a while and didn't see anything like this amongst the bajillion other portage bugs, so I added a new one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180307 Why