Hi Grant,
On 2018-09-17 20:10, Grant Edwards wrote:
I recently noticed that "emerge --search" stopped working correctly.
It now returns all sorts of packages that don't match the search
sting:
$ emerge --search wxpython | grep '^[^\t ]'
[ Results for search key : wxpython ]
Searching...
* dev-lang/python
* dev-python/bpython
* dev-python/ipython
* dev-python/pythong [ Masked ]
* dev-python/twython
* dev-python/vpython [ Masked ]
* dev-python/wxpython
[ Applications found : 7 ]
Why is it returning packges that don't match what I'm searching for?
Shouldn't only the last of the ones shown above be returned?
the culprit is --fuzzy-search. The manual states: "This option is
enabled by default".
Try the following:
$ emerge --fuzzy-search=n --search wxpython | grep '^[^\t ]'
[ Results for search key : wxpython ]
Searching...
* dev-python/wxpython
[ Applications found : 1 ]
I don't use --search (eix is my friend), but if you are certain that
this behavior is new to you, then this new default must be introduced
only recently.
--
Kind regards
Flo
