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On 2020.04.10 12:21, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, at 12:08, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless, |
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> > unrelated results when you do a search. WTF is the point of |
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> returning |
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> > a bunch of packages that don't contain the search string when there |
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> is |
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> > is a package name that match the search string exactly? |
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> This doesn't answer your question, but `eix' is way faster and I've |
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> been |
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> using it since I've started using Gentoo. |
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> |
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> Alec |
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Even eix often finds things I think are irrelevant, but I know it's |
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searching on a regexp, so I'll often do "eix ^string$ if I know the |
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package and am just looking for the info about it. |
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Jack |
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