[gentoo-user] How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

[Grant Edwards]

I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless,
unrelated results when you do a search.  WTF is the point of returning
a bunch of packages that don't contain the search string when there is
is a package name that match the search string exactly?

Yes, I'm aware I can add "--fuzzy-search n" to make it act sane, but
is there an environment variable or USE flag or _something_ to make
emerge --search do the right thing by default?  I have never, even
once, found the current defult behavior to be useful.

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Grant