On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Joe Peterson wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > I meant moves were largely pointless, although categories are to a
> > lesser extent. Tags would be a lot better, since nothing can be
> > categorized perfectly into a single place.
>
> Yes, I can see the benefit of a tag paradigm.  I, myself, find it
> more trouble than benefit to have the extra directory level.  I often
> do "cd /usr/portage/*/foo" to get to the foo package, and it often
> gets a hit in licenses or elsewhere that trips up this practice...

You can avoid the issue with the license directory by appending a / at 
the end. Grobian showed me that a function is useful for this, I just 
do "ecd xorg-server"

$ grep -A 3 ecd ~/.bashrc
function ecd () {
      cd ~/devel/gentoo/gentoo-x86/*/$@/
}

You could even change the /*/ to /*-*/ to exclude packages or profiles.

Robert