El dom, 23-11-2008 a las 16:01 +0200, tvali escribió: > Try esearch. > > emerge esearch > esearch ... > > 2008/11/23 Emma Strubell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi everyone. My name is Emma, and I am completely new to this > list. I've been using Gentoo since 2004, including Portage of > course, and before I say anything else I'd like to say thanks > to everyone for such a kickass package management system!! > > Anyway, for my final project in my Data Structures & > Algorithms class this semester, I would like to modify the > search functionality in emerge. Something I've always noticed > about 'emerge -s' or '-S' is that, in general, it takes a very > long time to perform the searches. (Although, lately it does > seem to be running faster, specifically on my laptop as > opposed to my desktop. Strangely, though, it seems that when I > do a simple 'emerge -av whatever' on my laptop it takes a very > long time for emerge to find the package and/or determine the > dependecies - whatever it's doing behind that spinner. I can > definitely go into more detail about this if anyone's > interested. It's really been puzzling me!) So, as my final > project I've proposed to improve the time it takes to perform > a search using emerge. My professor suggested that I look into > implementing indexing. > > However, I've started looking at the code, and I must admit > I'm pretty overwhelmed! I don't know where to start. I was > wondering if anyone on here could give me a quick overview of > how the search function currently works, an idea as to what > could be modified or implemented in order to improve the > running time of this code, or any tip really as to where I > should start or what I should start looking at. I'd really > appreciate any help or advice!! > > Thanks a lot, and keep on making my Debian-using professor > jealous :] > Emma > > > > -- > tvali > > Kuskilt foorumist: http://www.cooltests.com - kui inglise keelt oskad. > Muide, üle 120 oled väga tark, üle 140 oled geenius, mingi 170 oled ju > mingi täica pea nagu prügikast...
I use eix: emerge eix ;-)
