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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Speeding up emerge -s
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 08:53:31
Message-Id: 84y95yka1a.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Speeding up emerge -s by Peter Sharp
1 Peter Sharp <mail@××××××××××××××.net> writes:
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3 > In order to check for masking my script uses emerge -s and greps for masked.
4 > The reason for this is that it is easy and also future-proof as far as
5 > masking locations are concerned. (I _will_ soon be adding in information for
6 > non-x86 users).
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8 > The problem is that it is very slow. As I hope to release the script for
9 > people to use themselves eventually I would like to speed it up. My
10 > questions is therefore given that I know the exact category/package (ie I
11 > don't need to search) is there a better (quicker) way to get this
12 > information?
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14 I'm not at my Gentoo system at the moment, but maybe "qpkg $PACKAGE
15 -i" displays the information you need?
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