On Friday 26 May 2006 04:12, Lord Sauron wrote: > sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. > > On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: > > > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so > > > long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less > > > time to work with. I don't think it should be this slow. I'm not > > > even talking about compile-times - I know and expect those to be slow, > > > but just raw package searching and stuff is not that fast. > > > > Do like the rest of us. emerge eix and use that for searching. Make sure > > to run update-eix everytime you have sync'ed portage or better yet, use > > eix-sync to sync portage. > > > > --
or better, install esearch. It is as fast as eix, and it comes with esync. So instead of emerge sync AND update-eix, you just run esync. Has the additional advantage, that it lists all new and updates packages, when the sync is finished. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
