Re: [gentoo-user] When did "emerge --search" start returning packages that don't match?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Monday, September 17, 2018 10:10:01 PM CEST Grant Edwards wrote:
> I recently noticed that "emerge --search" stopped working correctly.
> It now returns all sorts of packages that don't match the search
> sting:
>
> $ emerge --search wxpython | grep '^[^\t ]'
>
> [ Results for search key : wxpython ]
> Searching...
> *  dev-lang/python
> *  dev-python/bpython
> *  dev-python/ipython
> *  dev-python/pythong [ Masked ]
> *  dev-python/twython
> *  dev-python/vpython [ Masked ]
> *  dev-python/wxpython
> [ Applications found : 7 ]
>
> Why is it returning packges that don't match what I'm searching for?
>
> Shouldn't only the last of the ones shown above be returned?

I just tested this on my system as well and am seeing the same (apart from the 
masked ones).
I agree that I would expect only "dev-python/wxpython" to be shown.
"eix wxpython" does work as expected.

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Joost