Everyone knows that if you want to search for a package in Gentoo portage, emerge -s is a real PITA, because is so slooooooooow.
The solution is named Eix, and you can install it with a simple
emerge eix
and, after the package has been emerged, issue a
update-eix
to sync EIX DB with portage or even a
eix-sync
to automatically do an emerge --sync && eix-sync
Now, you can do your search with a simple
eix $pattern
and it will be lightning-fast! eix –help for a load of neat options :)
