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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 15:59:27
Message-Id: 200605261751.33754.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow by Alexander Skwar
1 On Friday 26 May 2006 07:48, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2 > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
3 > > On Friday 26 May 2006 04:12, Lord Sauron wrote:
4 > >> sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix.
5 > >>
6 > >> On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote:
7 > >> > Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron:
8 > >> > > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so
9 > >> > > long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less
10 > >> > > time to work with. I don't think it should be this slow. I'm not
11 > >> > > even talking about compile-times - I know and expect those to be
12 > >> > > slow, but just raw package searching and stuff is not that fast.
13 > >> >
14 > >> > Do like the rest of us. emerge eix and use that for searching. Make
15 > >> > sure to run update-eix everytime you have sync'ed portage or better
16 > >> > yet, use eix-sync to sync portage.
17 > >> >
18 > >> > --
19 > >
20 > > or better, install esearch. It is as fast as eix, and it comes with
21 > > esync.
22 > >
23 > > So instead of emerge sync AND update-eix, you just run esync.
24 >
25 > Sory, I fail to see the advantage.
26 >
27 > eix comes with eix-sync, which will do a emerge --sync and update-eix.
28 >
29
30 ok, but still less to type ;)
31
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>