[gentoo-user] Why doesn't esearch find "exact" packages? [Bug: 180307]

[Daevid Vincent]

Is this a known issue with a "fix" coming or is this "by design" (which
seems shockingly short-sighted). I searched bugs.gentoo.org for quite a
while and didn't see anything like this amongst the bajillion other
portage bugs, so I added a new one: 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180307

Why can't I just search for an exact package (like to find out which
versions I have installed/available, or other info).

daevid ~ # esearch python | less
[ Results for search key : python ]
[ Applications found : 54 ]

*  dev-lang/python
      Latest version available: 2.4.4-r4
      Latest version installed: 2.4.4
      Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
      Homepage:    http://www.python.org/
      Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive,
object-oriented programming language.
      License:     PSF-2.2

daevid ~ # esearch dev-lang/python
[ Results for search key : dev-lang/python ]
[ Applications found : 0 ] 
 

Yes, I can use eix, but I don't have this on all my boxes, nor do I want
to install it and maintain yet another package cache and all that (for
example, on a dev VMWare guest that I want to keep as small as
possible).

daevid ~ # eix dev-lang/python
[U] dev-lang/python 
     Available versions:  
        (2.3)   2.3.5-r2 2.3.5-r3 ~2.3.6 ~2.3.6-r2
        (2.4)   2.4.3-r1 2.4.3-r4 2.4.4 2.4.4-r4
        (2.5)   [M]~2.5-r2 [M]~2.5.1-r2
     Installed:           2.3.5-r2(2.3)(17:50:44 09/10/05)(X berkdb
-bootstrap -build -doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses -nocxx readline ssl -tcltk
-ucs2)
                          2.4.4(2.4)(00:06:19 05/12/07)(berkdb
-bootstrap -build -doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses -nocxx readline ssl -tk -ucs2)
     Homepage:            http://www.python.org/
     Description:         Python is an interpreted, interactive,
object-oriented programming language.



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