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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:42:29
Message-Id: 95353BBF-29DF-4A12-91D1-9BE9B39B6EC0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eix, can I trust it at all? by Petr Kocmid
1 On 6 Jan 2006, at 17:18, Petr Kocmid wrote:
2 >
3 > # eix ktorrent
4 > * net-p2p/ktorrent
5 > Available versions: 1.0 1.1_rc1 1.1 (all green==available for
6 > install)
7 > Installed: none
8 > Homepage: http://ktorrent.pwsp.net/
9 > Description: A BitTorrent program for KDE.
10
11 and:
12
13 On 6 Jan 2006, at 17:31, Lares Moreau wrote:
14 > eix has it's own Database, and doesn't run of live data.
15 >
16 > eix-sync -- emerge --sync's then updates the eix DB. DO that or emerge
17 > --sync && update-eix
18
19
20 What's eix, then? Apart from a "small utility for searching ebuilds
21 with indexing for fast results".
22
23 I'm using esearch at the moment - should I change?
24
25 The results of `eix ktorrent` above seem more comprehensive than
26 those that'd be give by esearch, is that the only advantage? `esync`
27 takes bleedin' ages on one system here, so if eix was faster I'd use
28 it in a flash.
29
30 Stroller.
31
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then? Christian Heim <phreak@g.o>