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Bart Van Kerkhove wrote: |
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>Try emerging esearch |
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>emerge esearch |
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>eupdatedb |
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>esearch <packagename> |
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>FrostFire |
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>>Hello, |
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>>First off, sorry if this isn't the right place! |
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>>I didn't see anything more appropriate though, except |
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>>perhaps Portage-dev, but I'm not a developer. |
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>>I'm a FreeBSD user switching to Gentoo for my home |
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>>system. Linux 2.6 is a LOT more stable than any |
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>>FreeBSD 5.x-RELEASE kernels right now, and Linux |
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>>has much better support for Wine and such. |
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>>One of the most obvious differences between FreeBSD |
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>>ports and Gentoo Portage is how LONG it takes to |
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>>search for ports/packages with Portage. |
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>>I have 525 ports installed on my FreeBSD laptop right |
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>>now, and probably only half of that installed on the |
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>>Gentoo machine, but the gentoo machine crunches a lot |
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>>more doing a --search than the FreeBSD machine does |
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>>with a pkg_version -vs 'name'. |
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>>And forget about --searchdesc! That takes ages! |
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>>Is portage not hash indexed or something? |
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>>Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator |
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>>WingNET Internet Services, |
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>>P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 |
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>>423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) |
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>>http://www.wingnet.net |
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>>gentoo-performance@g.o mailing list |
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>here's a little tip for you guys wanting to speed up portage. I found it in the forums, and it works like a charm. |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=153921&highlight=psyco |
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