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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Friday 26 May 2006 04:12, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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>> sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. |
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>> On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote: |
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>> > Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: |
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>> > > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so |
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>> > > long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less |
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>> > > time to work with. I don't think it should be this slow. I'm not |
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>> > > even talking about compile-times - I know and expect those to be slow, |
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>> > > but just raw package searching and stuff is not that fast. |
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>> > Do like the rest of us. emerge eix and use that for searching. Make sure |
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>> > to run update-eix everytime you have sync'ed portage or better yet, use |
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>> > eix-sync to sync portage. |
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> or better, install esearch. It is as fast as eix, and it comes with esync. |
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> So instead of emerge sync AND update-eix, you just run esync. |
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Sory, I fail to see the advantage. |
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eix comes with eix-sync, which will do a emerge --sync and update-eix. |
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> Has the additional advantage, that it lists all new and updates packages, when |
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> the sync is finished. |
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You don't know eix, do you? Because, what you list here as an "advantage" |
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is no advantage, as eix does the same. |
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