On Monday, September 17, 2018 10:10:01 PM CEST Grant Edwards wrote: > I recently noticed that "emerge --search" stopped working correctly. > It now returns all sorts of packages that don't match the search > sting: > > $ emerge --search wxpython | grep '^[^\t ]' > > [ Results for search key : wxpython ] > Searching... > * dev-lang/python > * dev-python/bpython > * dev-python/ipython > * dev-python/pythong [ Masked ] > * dev-python/twython > * dev-python/vpython [ Masked ] > * dev-python/wxpython > [ Applications found : 7 ] > > Why is it returning packges that don't match what I'm searching for? > > Shouldn't only the last of the ones shown above be returned?
I just tested this on my system as well and am seeing the same (apart from the masked ones). I agree that I would expect only "dev-python/wxpython" to be shown. "eix wxpython" does work as expected. -- Joost
